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...from the Philippines (a lot of it from around Davao, one of the first towns the Japs took)-looks like the banana plant (see cut, p. 63) and belongs to the same family. Bananas may grease the ways for a Victory ship launching, but abacá makes the rope for the world's navies. There has been little abacá since Manila fell, and there will be little if any more till Manila is retaken...
...describe again how the peach trees looked in the spring. Pastula sang softly until his throat became too parched. Dixon, impatient, worried but cheerfully profane, decided to head for islands in the south. He drew a chart on a piece of canvas. With the salvaged line of rope and a life jacket, he rigged up a sea anchor which steadied the bobbing raft when winds were contrary...
Hangover Square, by the author of two hair-raising plays -Rope's End (1929) and this winter's Angel Street -is a psychiatric case history written as a horror story. Its victim, George Harvey Bone, is a big, bewildered Englishman who suffers from "dead moods." Textbooks would call him a schizophrenic. When George meets Netta, a beauty who has the torpid heartlessness of a late Roman Emperor, he collapses into a state of slavery which is emotionally uninhabitable. When Netta and her friends persecute George, just for the fun of it, his "spells," once mere vacant withdrawals from...
...Herrick '90, arrived at the Newell Boat House yesterday morning, and the effects of the war were hardly noticeable. Its weight, 270 pounds, is the same as last year's shell, and the same wood stock was used. Most important waste shift back to the old type of rope controlled steering gear...
...handed, rope steering gear on the newest shell is identical with the ones used up until three years ago, at which time the new type was tried out and found very satisfactory. Priorities and defense demands have not yet claimed the tubular steel out rigging of the boat...