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...their traditional bout at New Haven today the Crimson soccer team will meet a strong Yale eleven that boasts a record of no defeats and two ties. But according to Coach Jack Carr, the team is at its peak and full of confidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Are Underdogs In Yale Tussle Today | 11/22/1940 | See Source »

...woven Cashmere which comes only from India, Tibet and China; of sheep which live in the outer Hebrides on the Isles of Harris and Lewis, from which must come all real, native-spun yarns for tweeds. It is because he has known the mysteries of the notch lapel, the peak lapel and the semi-drape lapel. . . because he has heard tales to the effect that side-vents were originally made for grouse shooting, and has dreamed of fine virgin wool that has been stored on the wharves of Glasgow for over seventy-five years. But, most important...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 11/20/1940 | See Source »

...plane still missing, a westbound pilot called. Something had gone wrong with the radio range, he said: he was hearing the "A" signal where he should be getting an "N." Salt Lake City airmen suspected Trip 16's fate before she was found, at noon, smashed against Bountiful Peak at 6,500 feet, 15 miles northeast of the field. All hands were dead-the two pilots, the stewardess, seven passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: On Bountiful Peak | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Thus were these noncomplementary economics forced into partial yoke for diplomacy's sake. In the offing was a still more difficult problem : How could the U.S. arm Latin America while arming itself and Britain too? With the U. S. steel industry at an all-time production peak and domestic priorities threatening, Latin America's orders stood at the end of the queue. Japan was still importing steel sheets and shapes for its Navy from U. S. mills last week. One possible halfway step: to give Latin-American orders priority over Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Jones Family of Nations | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

With a fair sprinkling of mud, the Plan E campaign reached its peak of verbosity yesterday when Mayor Lyons asserted in a radio speech that only "quacks and parlor pinks" were sponsoring the proposed charter for Cambridge while Dean Landis charged that the last two years here are examples of how a city should not be managed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Quacks, Parlor Pinks" For Plan E, Lyons Says; Dean Landis Finds Cambridge Near-Bankrupt | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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