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...fine in the Chinese anthem. In the airport rest house Willkie said the right thing: "One of the difficulties facing me is that one falls so much in love with the Chinese people that it is difficult to form a critical and fact-finding judgment." According to Chinese custom, he was given a hot towel with which to refresh his hands...
Ships had always been custom-built. To mass-produce ships meant teaching a whole industry new tricks. Every ship had to be an exact replica of her sister. A State of Washington propeller had to fit on a shaft made in Wisconsin for a hull launched in Oregon...
Whenever a Harvard football team has trotted out on the field to open its season during the past five or six years, it has usually been the custom of the spectators to sit back in their seats and say to themselves, "We probably won't see much today, because Harlow-coached elevens rarely seem to hit their stride before November...
Last night the United Press quoted General Hershey as saying married men would be drafted next year. This action could be taken, it was added, without Congressional action as current deferment of married men has been simply a matter of custom...
...Commercial Investment Trust Corp., world's biggest sales financier, last week jumped into a new and strange field: manufacturing. With six pages of mimeographed handout it announced outright purchase of Boston's 67-year-old Holtzer-Cabot Electric Co., producer of custom-made electric motors and appliances. Net cost to C.I.T...