Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon changed the positions of four men in his first two crews. "Big Jim" Gardner who has been rowing No. 4 on the Jayvee outfit has been moved up to the Varsity No. 6 position whole John Bray, Jayvee No. 7 has been advanced to the Varsity Bow to add more weight to the front of the boat...
...leaves were instantly canceled. Admiral Sellers got in touch with the Canal's Governor Julian L. Schley, who called off an officers' ball, mobilized all his facilities for the unprecedented mass movement ahead. Wartime regulations went into effect. No civilian was permitted near the locks and, to add a final authentic touch of war, the Army Intelligence Division spread a spy story...
...used 1,500,000,000 lb. of fats, of which two-thirds came from beyond the seas. At present prices the 3? tax amounts on the average to a 100% ad valorem levy. All soap makers use some imported fats, and they bluntly declare that the new impost will add 25% to the price of a cake of soap...
Senator Copeland of New York (Manhattan has a large Puerto Rican population) declared: ''To overlook the obligations we owe to Puerto Rico and its citizens is something I cannot approve. The act will add at least 200 million dollars a year to the cost of sugar. ... In short. we ruthlessly abandon Puerto Rico and dig into our pocketbooks for the beet sugar farmers...
...diamond, smugglers is the task of Detective Nigel Bruce. Munching peanuts, looking dumb, he succeeds, after his antagonists have been able to commit only two murders, in outwitting them. Intermittently, caught in the whirlpool of tropical action, Miss Heather Angel and a recent British import named Douglas Walton add standard Hollywood romance to the picture. A motorboat chase and an expedition through a quicksand swamp form the principal excitements of the film, but it is the acting of Mr. Bruce and his cohorts which raises "Murder in Trinidad" above other thrillers...