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...could reach any United States seaport. However, the possibility of introduction of the disease by carrier is not being overlooked, and bacteriological search is being conducted for carriers whenever indicated. Ships from cholera-infected areas are not granted radio pratique.* Through passengers from infected areas traveling by Pan American Clipper airships will probably not be inconvenienced, since they will have completed the incubation period by the time they reach San Francisco, but those stopping off en route will be held at stopover points to complete the incubation period...
...have outgrown their tick-lishness lie still; young goats squirm. The goat's four feet have meanwhile been bunched together and tied. The shearer clips as much of its back as he can reach, flops it over like a griddle cake, clips the rest. As the rapacious electric clipper slides over its head and down its nose even an old goat wriggles deliciously...
...best customer (China bought only 14,000 bales), had already been warned by the Department of Agriculture of the imminent disruption of this market, but for the time being Walgreen Drug Co. was happy over an emergency shipment of cod liver oil, expressed to the war zone by Clipper...
...Associated Press obtained one of the most complete picture beats of the year. It got a fine shot of the bombing of the Shanghai waterfront (see p.19) and many pictures of the dead piled up in the streets. The photographs were rushed by plane to Hongkong, put on the Clipper for San Francisco and delivered to U. S. member papers ten days after the cameras clicked. Other picture agencies were beaten by a week because their boat failed to catch the Clipper at Manila...
...from Port Washington, few minutes after the German plane had taxied to the ramp, droned the Pan American Clipper, off for England via Bermuda and the Azores. Having crossed the Atlantic by the northern route four times with precision, Captain Harold E. Gray and his pioneering crew were making the first test of the Southern route...