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...after the murder he had taken Sir Jock and Lady Broughton on an eight-day safari. Said Hunter Hunter: "Sir Delves shot several small antelope. He shot one lion with a heavy double-barreled rifle, . . . walked seven miles a day stalking game, . . . never appeared fatigued. . . . He also helped to pull the dead lions aboard a lorry...
...Harvard crow was rowing with beautiful precision. Those who watch it from launches are hard pressed-to find anything about which to quibble, although Tom Bolles can generally find something which doesn't please him. Eight oars hit the water outboard with chronological precision, and following a powerful pull-through, dip cat with scarcely a splash, all leaving the water at exactly the same moment. Inboard the crew is not quite as balanced, but what few faults there are seem to counteract each other, and the shell's run, even at very high strokes, has been the envy...
...shook herself out of her cruise pace. On radio and telephone Giles Stedman and U.S. Lines got the Navy to agree to let him drop his 250 passengers at New York, promised to have his beauty back in Newport News by Wednesday of this week. There workmen will pull out her luxury trappings, install three-and four-decker bunks in her cabins, paint her Navy grey, perhaps arm her with 5-in. guns for her new life as a transport. Built to carry 1,200 passengers in the North Atlantic trade, she will be able to carry about...
...usual was dead for the duration. Director of Purchases Donald M. Nelson set the U.S. goal at $35,000,000,000* of defense production a year, which meant a corresponding decrease in civilian production. The purchasing agents were urged to adapt their buying policies to a long defense pull, to seek substitutes for strategic materials, not to hog inventories, so that no manufacturer should be short of materials while another's warehouse bulged...
Glancing at the Caja de Seguro Obrero, as he must have done many a time in the last few critical weeks, Don Tinto could pull his bushy mustache and reflect on the dual perils which have beset his administration from its start. To the left of him was the danger that the Popular Front would disintegrate; to the right, the danger of another Sept. 5. Don Tinto's recent veto of two bills passed by Congress brought both perils upon him last week...