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...were sure that iron ore lay buried beneath the lichens of barren Ungava, but there seemed no practical and profitable way of moving it from the subarctic wilderness. In 1942 Jules Robert Timmins, Montreal gold-mining magnate, decided to take the challenge. Last week, as he watched the first boatload of Ungava ore leave for the U.S., Jules Timmins, 66, could claim success. "It is the realization of [my] dreams, hopes and plans," he said...
...beaten; as a varsity crew they had won 28 straight races. Said Callow: "They have an 'engine room' [Stroke Oar Ed Stevens and No. 7, Wayne Frye] that is one of the greatest that has ever rowed in a shell." As far as Callow was concerned, his boatload of oarsmen had only one flaw, and that was beyond repair: for six members of the Navy varsity (the "Sing Sing Six of the Severn") last week's race at Lake Onondaga, N.Y. was their last. Five already had their commissions (two Navy, three Air Force...
...equipment that Schulman never before had needed in his 17 years of metropolitan news reporting: high boots. Alaskan mukluks, parka and long underwear. With this gear he flew to Victoria, B.C., drove 135 miles across Vancouver Island to catch a float plane to keep a rendezvous with a boatload of seagoing missionaries on their Christmas visit to the isolated settlers on the island's West Coast...
Eight times Seattle pulled out all the stops to welcome home a boatload of "rotating" G.I.s returning from Korea. The standard welcome program: brass bands, free theater tickets, ice cream, candy, a performance on the wharf by bathing beauties, swivel-hipped hula girls, and prancing cancan dancers. The boys thought it was great stuff, but some of Seattle's moms didn't. They wrote letters to the papers, buttonholed and berated officials to complain about the show the girls put on at dockside...
Cornell's coach, Stork Stanford, found little new material with which to build up a better boatload this season...