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...bandit horde coming fast down the Yuan River, the Misses Granner and Renninger hopped into a small Chinese junk and told the boatman to make haste by sail and oar for the city of Changteh. As the square-bowed, flat-bottomed boat slithered downstream, the army's hubbub crept up behind. The junk was lolloping along 20 miles short of Changteh when it was overhauled and seized by the bandits...
...will unmercifully put aside all unjustifiable price increases," he announced. "Price increases have taken place in many fields in recent months that are absolutely unbearable. A fear psychosis has crept in from which I would like to liberate those affected. . . . Wear your old clothes down to the last thread if necessary. . . . There is no excuse for any kind of worry about the supply of our daily needs. . . . My first activities will centre on food and clothing, for their prices seem to me the most critical...
Sooner or later President Roosevelt's recovery program will have to have its Dred Scott case. For months & months a gigantic tortoise race of litigations has crept up through the nation's lower courts, slugged its way toward the inevitable goal of the U. S. Supreme Court, where three test cases are already on the docket. Last week four late entries appeared. Three were negligible, one looked like a champion. And the recovery program lost three out of four of the first sprints...
That race will go down in yachting history. Yankee crossed the starting line to windward but Rainbow crept past her on the first tack. A sudden puff of wind tore Yankee's Genoa jib. By the time she had replaced it, Rainbow had increased her lead. When the boats rounded the buoy 15 miles from the start, Rainbow was leading by 1 min. 34 sec. Coming back both set parachute spinnakers and Yankee began to gain. For 15 miles she inched up on Rainbow. A half mile from the finish, her bow was even with Rainbow's mast...
Little by little the paralysis crept up the surrounding valleys. In the San Joaquin Valley, 400 workers quit their vineyards. In the Salinas Valley, truck garden for San Francisco, produce was moved east and south, seeking other markets. Throughout the entire area roads were crowded with hundreds, perhaps thousands of refugees from the afflicted zone, mostly women and children being sent to the country where food could be had. By mid-afternoon of the first day it was estimated that 100,000 people had left town in 24 hours. A typical refugee was a steamship executive who moved his family...