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...late great William Butler Yeats was a poet of genius, a man of parts (of which few sold at popular prices), a deep-sea diver in the lugubrious pearl-gulfs of the occult, a political thinker to set men's teeth on edge...
Federal police, acting at last on information documented in a U.S. State Department memorandum, grabbed 38 suspected Nazi agents. The catch included a deep-sea diver who had volunteered to attach time bombs to the keels of Allied ships in Buenos Aires harbor. His activities and those of other agents, including a Swiss and Paraguayan, pointed to the German Embassy, and in particular to Naval Attaché Captain Dietrich Niebuhr...
...Charlie Wilson is muscular ruddy, carries his six-foot frame like an infantry major. He likes golf, deep-sea fishing, has seldom missed a big prize fight and has taken on some pretty good men himself in gymnasium rings. But mostly he just works...
...should be 50% less. Thus this winter the East's needs will be about 1.4 million bbls. daily. The East can still hope to hit this mark if the oil problem is headed by one capable authority, backed by a molecule of political honesty. Any unscheduled deliveries by deep-sea tankers would be a windfall...
Boston's shipping business, going fast, sank sickeningly when war broke out in December. About all that was left was the South American shipping which the port had managed to hold. Coastwise ships were swept from the harbor, sold to the Government or turned into more profitable deep-sea routes. The Government even cast covetous eyes on the oil tankers that served Boston, until officials realized that if they took too many, New England would have to shut down its industrial plants...