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Last week the war reached out to Chicago. Since late July the Dutch freighter Prins Willem III had swung at anchor off Navy Pier, unable to sail back up the St. Lawrence for fear of capture in Canada. But by last week internment in Canada looked better to the bored, sequestered Dutch than gazing at the Chicago skyline all day. Onto the deck swung a Canadian crew, headed the Prins Willem III out across Lake Michigan...
...rolled more echoes of war. Behind the guarded gates of Manhattan's West 50th Street pier the kits of 190 British tars were hoisted aboard the ponderous Queen Elizabeth. Within a fortnight she was expected to set out for Halifax, where 12,000 bunks would be installed, then sail to Australia on transport duty...
...early tide. One day the family doctor showed him a pickled brain, and young Wilfred, "thrilled," decided to become a physician. After he graduated from the University of London, he set up an office in fashionable Mayfair, but he longed for the sea. So in June 1892 he set sail with a British hospital ship to spend a summer treating the natives of Labrador...
...Sailing ten foot Dyer Dinghys in a fluky wind that died before the day was out, George Nicholas and Roger Wilcox, Harvard representatives in Classes A and B, led the heats around a short windward - leeward course that took about an half-hour to sail...
Alaska has been vulnerable to invasion since navies were converted from sail to steam. It took the airplane to make it a strategic area from which an attack could be launched against the U. S. From the southern boundary of the narrow, water-laced Alaska panhandle which extends southward along the western frontier of Canada, Seattle is only 625 miles by air. From Juneau, considerably farther north and west, Pan American Airways runs regularly, twice a week, flies to Seattle in seven hours. The special importance of this fact is that this part of Alaska also lies along the route...