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Willing as it was, there was little U. S. charity could do to help Europe last week. The first boatload of British child evacuees to come directly from England under the sponsorship of the U. S. Committee for the Care of European Children was due in Manhattan. When the next boatload would arrive, the committee could not tell. Problem was to find ships to bring them. This week the Senate approved the Hennings Bill (already passed by the House) to amend the Neutrality Act, allow U. S. ships, plainly marked, to go into combat zones to evacuate children. The Bill...
...hour later, when six junior varsity eights lined up for their three-mile race, a stiff head wind had become considerably stiffer. Before the shells had traveled 200 yards, coxswains were busy bailing. Presently the Washington boatload began slowly to sink like the orchestra in Radio City's Music Hall. Official launches scurried to the rescue, scurried on to rescue Syracuse, Columbia, California. Cornell and Navy managed to stay afloat for nearly a mile. Frantic horn-tooting and whistle-blowing finally notified them that the race had been called...
...Jayvee race was perhaps the most exciting of the afternoon's thrilling program. Harvard's strong boatload, stroked by Colt Wagner, set off at a furious pace but found itself unable to get ahead of either Syracuse or M.I.T. until the final sprint...
...story was later admitted in part. An official statement pointed out that a force majeure had to be created to enable Captain Lorber to yield his mail without any question of having failed in his duty as a U. S. mail carrier. This "show of force" was a boatload of armed special constables...
...Milwaukee Soapmaker Caleb Johnson, president of Palmolive Co., the Russian Revolution was a nuisance. On the day they assassinated the Tsar, a boatload of his pet Palmolive Soap was ploughing the grey Pacific, Vladivostok-bound, By the time it reached Japan the Russians were too busy to wash. The Japanese, no great shakes as soap consumers themselves, let the cargo pile up storage fees for three years. Finally, Soapman Johnson got a tip: Australia needed soap. To Sydney went the lot. Australians snapped it up at 30? a cake...