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...Zealand officer, a former dairy farmer from Auckland, told how he and his comrades butchered a gang of Germans trying to cross a stream in one of the Olympic passes: "We sank one boat after another. After two hours the river was teeming with half-sunken boats drifting downstream, and with splashing, drowning men. Some of the boats were littered with dead and wounded men. We got sick of killing them. It was mass slaughter." Parachutists in grey shorts and heavy grey jackets, armed with submachine guns, floated to the aid of the men in the river. "Our position appeared...
...Genera tor; another adjusted the generator's speed, a third, voltage. A round dome top-light began burning. Construction Engineer A. F. Darland, grey-haired veteran of dams, watched the dial of a gauge to check the moment the generator syn chronized with others at Bonneville, 450 miles downstream. When the arrow stood straight up he slammed the switch. Coulee's power was linked...
Starting Monday morning, the oarsmen will work out twice daily until Saturday in an effort to make up for the time which they have lost to their downstream rivals from M.I.T. Although the Engineers' practice hours are restricted because of stiff laboratory schedules, they have been on the water since before Washington's Birthday, and this formidable head start should be hard to overcome before the two crews meet in the Rowe Cup race scheduled for a month from yesterday...
Starting Saturday morning, members of the coaching staff; squad, launch drivers, and managers set about sounding the glacial material which all winter has concealed the Charles' murky waters, downstream on M.I.T., whose oarsmen already have a month's practice behind them...
Saturday afternoon Captain Sherm Gray and Sophomore Harry Parkman played before a bankside gallery when the floe on which they were working broke loose and slowly swirled downstream with its entourage of embryo Eilzas. Heartened by Sunday's warmth, Arthur, who drives the University launch, and Carl, pilot of the Harvey Love Freshman special, set out to saw a space in which to set down, the float stages yesterday morning...