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...Precaution) work last week. At the Admiralty, War Office, Home Office, Works Department and Scotland Yard, men worked three eight-hour shifts. Basements were reconstructed as living quarters, electric kitchens installed, stores of food laid in. Every doorway has been gasproofed and rooms and passages have been equipped with bulkhead doors...
Open not only to Gulf Stream fishermen but to anyone who catches one of the 30 specified varieties of fish† with rod & reel within the tournament's fixed boundaries-from boat, pier, bridge, bulkhead or breakwater-the Miami tournament, started three years ago, is the largest in the U. S. Last year 102,000 contestants entered their catches. A barefoot boy with a 10? rod, a trailer tourist who goes out on a $2-a-day party boat and an elegant sportsman with a $100 rod and a $1,000 reel have each an equal chance...
...Construct a 43-mile bulkhead motor highway, part parkway, part boulevard well above high-tide line the length of the sandspit from Fire Island State Park to Southampton...
Finally Executive Officer Arthur F. Anders, shot through the throat and unable to speak, scrawled the order to abandon ship on the bulkhead. While the crew and refugee passengers, many of them wounded, were being taken ashore in small boats, the planes machine-gunned them, then veered off to bomb three Standard Oil tankers. The refugees, fearful of more attacks, lay freezing in the muck & reeds of the river bank when Japanese motorboats appeared, fired a couple of belts of machine gun bullets into the Panay, boarded her and finally left her to sink. Two hours and 20 minutes after...
They would have succeeded were it not for the fact that the engines would not start and that a Leftist engineer dodged behind a bulkhead and began firing his pistol, killing one of the raiders. Before French harbor police had been able to come out to investigate the row the subernappers had escaped, taking Commander Ferrando with them as hostage. At Bélin near Bordeaux French police captured one of their two escaping cars, interned the lot. Among them was Miguel Juan Las Heras, Commander of the C4. Immediately it became apparent that Commander Ferrando had not been kidnapped...