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...cars on a Boston-Cambridge subway train. Having smashed windows, put out lights, torn down advertising posters, ripped out bell-cords, they were reported to the Cambridge police by frightened passengers. Their cars were shunted off into the subway's yards. There detectives piled them into patrol wagons, took them to the police station where their names were recorded. One engineering Freshman, a Henry T. Conway of Lowell, Mass., was discovered with a bit of bell-rope in his pocket. He was later fined...
...successful national monopoly. Through this association all Icelandic fishermen present a united front to European buyers of cod and herring. Experience has shown that by this method they can demand and get higher prices than ever before. Jealously guarded are Iceland's lucrative fisheries. Day and night they are patrolled by the country's two icebreakers, the Thor and the Odin. Trespassing trawlers are hauled before a civil court, and up to the present time fines imposed on such fish poachers have sufficed to pay the expenses of the patrol...
...Author. Commander Dyott, 47, was born in Manhattan but is an English citizen. During the War he served with the famed Dover Patrol of the Royal Naval Air Service. He is married to an American, Persis Stevens Wright. The expedition in search of Fawcett was his ninth to South America. Last year the Royal Geographical Society, of which he is a member, gave him the Gill Award in recognition of his explorations. Among his idiosyncrasies: he likes work, likes photographing wild life, likes to pun in print. Other books: Silent Highways of the Jungle, On the Trail of the Unknown...
Fairchild cabin planes were early favorites in Canada. The Canadian Department of National Defense owns 32 (to the chagrin of English companies), for forest patrol, aerial photography and survey operations. Fairchild business is so good that the company is now constructing its own plant at Longueuil, 15 minutes from the heart of Montreal. Adjacent are its eight-rayed landing field, its seaplane T-dock on the St. Lawrence...
...straggled through snow storms to Minot, N. Dak., then to Great Falls, Mont. From Spokane, their terminal, they received bleak news. Weather there had inopportunely moderated. The ski-shod planes needed snow or thick ice for landing. Spokane had neither, temporarily, last week. Major Ralph Royce, leader of the patrol, declared the flight probably the most difficult and hazardous undertaken by a peacetime Army squadron...