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...last ditch effort to smear Harvard's unblemished sprint-race record, the Varsity crews of Princeton, Syracuse, and Cornell will join forces tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 o'clock in the hopes that one of them will cover the mile and three-quarters course faster than Captain Sherm Gray's eight. The chances of the Crimson's being upset seem almost negligible, and the rangy Varsity seems headed for its first undefeated sprint season since Spike Chace captained...
...come within range while the Canal is still intact. Coast Artillery anti-aircraft men, although they could use more and better guns, have gone into the jungles, placed and manned what guns they have there, done a heroic job of soldiering. But they, too, have no illusions about last-ditch defense. If ever enemy bombers in sufficient force get over the Zone, and find the few small targets that mean anything, the Canal can be closed; the U.S. Fleet can be divided...
...fixed charges. That year the line lost $13,124,530 and it looked as if the courts came next. But Uncle Dan made the fur fly, got $8,233,000 from his old friend Jesse Jones, sold a ditch of a canal to PWA for $2,000,000, persuaded Congress to pass the Chandler Act, so astutely worded that it helped no other trunk line, but let B. & 0. cut its fixed charges...
Against these still remote possibilities, Admiral Sadler told what the Navy is doing to extend its Pacific defenses: four bases for patrol seaplanes, also usable for Navy light craft. Farthest flung will be Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, astride the Equator, 1,000 miles from the Big Ditch. There, in a twelve-island archipelago fantastically storied as a haven for pirates and more modern escapists, Navy airmen will set up patrol bases, scan the Pacific to south, west and north. Another base will be set up 550 miles north of the Galapagos, on deserted Cocos Island, a favorite picnic stop...
...desperate last-ditch effort to Break its fourth-place tie with Princeton in the Eastern League, the Harvard basketball team will go "all out" tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building as it attempts to retreat its earlier season win over the bottom-place Penn quintet...