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An honor guard of Belgian troops smartly presented arms on the dock one day last week as the Canadian freighter Beaver-brae nosed into Antwerp's harbor. In the ship were the last of 170 artillery pieces, 23,000 machine guns and rifles, and 2,500 tons of ammunition...
A Crimson yawl nosed out M.I.T. yesterday at Annapolis, but M.I.T.'s two-day total in the yachting races gave them the Macmillan Cup. Harvard finished fifth with a total score of 11 3/4 points.
The disappearance of their main scapegoat, under indictment for "crimes against the state," threw the congressional committee into a boiling rage. For three days, every spare cop was flung into the chase, and government patrol craft nosed into every cove and inlet along the river coast. But their quarry got...
Where should the new taxes come from? Although corporate taxes are "very close to the maximum limits that would be safe even in a temporary emergency," C.E.D. thought $1 billion could be raised by boosting the 47% corporate income tax rate to 50%. Its other proposals were equally hard-nosed...
When the blunt-bowed oreboat, S.S Bethore, nosed into its mooring at Sparrows Point, Md. last week, the red carpet was rolled out by Bethlehem Steel Corp executives. The ship carried the first load of Venezuelan iron ore (22,000 tons) ever to be brought to the U.S. The ore...