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...Donaldson Atlantic Line (affiliate of Cunard-White Star) they embarked at Glasgow, Belfast and Liverpool for Montreal. At 8:59 p. m. Sunday, about 200 mi. west of the Hebrides, a mortal explosion suddenly rocked and ripped the Athenia's, hull, killed perhaps 100 passengers & crew, started her sinking fast. All hands got safely into lifeboats. One of the first ships to reach the rescue scene was the Southern Cross. Bitterly criticized Tycoon Wenner-Gren became an international hero as he picked up 200 survivors, started back with them toward Ireland. The Norwegian freighter Knute Nelson picked...
...heights of Salamis overlooking the Bay of Eleusis, the mighty Persian, Xerxes, in 480 B. C. watched his fleet sink under attack of 300 Greek battleships...
Three quickest ways for a belligerent to get a neutral nation into a general war (as an enemy): bomb the nation's property, sink its ships, kill its people. Person most intimately concerned last week with keeping the U. S. out of the European war was the tall, athletic, dressy, rich, charming U. S. Ambassador to Poland, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, who, without training, has proved himself an intelligent, far- sighted diplomat. He could do nothing about U. S. ships, but he quickly moved most U. S. citizens out of killing range, persuaded them to sell their property...
...This was signed off with "Okay, big boy." Another message charted a strange position: "Eighteen days out of Calcutta, 40 miles south of Hialeah." (Forty miles south of Hialeah race track lie the Everglades.) After several hours: "Don't speak English." Last message, toward 5 a. m.: "Will sink in two hours. Ten inches of water in my room...
...Dealers concentrated on gloomy calculations for the crucial second quarter of 1940. They figured on sharp cuts in spending: that WPA under new appropriations would be nearly $250,000,000 under April-June 1939, that PWA outlay, now around $150,000,000 a quarter, would sink to nothing by next spring. In the first half of 1939, although business in general was not booming, nonresidential construction hit a recovery high that exceeded even 1937. For this Government spending was responsible as the figures for contracts let show...