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...same time, officials announced that the Freshman race will start at 9:30 o'clock on the upper two miles of the course, while the Varsity race will begin at 6 o'clock in the afternoon on on the downstream from Bartletts Cove to the railroad bridge...
Chungking admitted last week that transportation on the Burma Road had been seriously disrupted. Shanghai reports said that Burma Road bridges across the winding Mekong River had been bombed to pieces, were piled up as wreckage downstream. Months ago Chinese anti-aircraft guns were foolishly placed high on the rim of the Mekong gorges. Japanese bomber pilots soon learned to swoop below the gun level, bombed the deep-gorge bridges with relative impunity. Later the guns were lowered. Last week it was said that along the Road supply trucks were jammed up by the hundreds-fine bombing targets -waiting...
Knowing the economic consequences of war, businessmen naturally disliked the defense boom. They were swept downstream almost against their will, steering as cautiously as they could. They ploughed their profits back into debt retirement or new plant, drove good bargains with the Government in answer to its demands for industrial expansion. When the boom ends, this caution may help Business to face a buyer's market with efficient plant, low overhead-may ease post-war adjustments. But the engine of industry did not speed up because of confidence burning within. It was sped up from without by the energy...
...political history. Franklin Roosevelt of the baronial Hudson Valley, of Groton, Harvard, the Wilson sub-Cabinet, was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1920 when he first met Jim Farley, the Irish Catholic, grubbing young politico from plebeian Grassy Point across the Hudson and downstream. Mr. Roosevelt does not remember that meeting; it was at a crowded reception in Manhattan. Jim Farley does, in every detail, down to what his bride said, and the feel of his palm in Franklin Roosevelt's hurried clasp. Their real acquaintance began at the Democratic National Convention...
...nick of time, James Craig lets the animals out all over again. Miss Lane gets the skull when the volcano erupts, explodes and buries Mr. Ciannelli. Says Tom Fadden, patting the skull as Miss Lane and he drop leisurely downstream a few minutes later: "Old fellow, when we get back from this, you and I are going on a two-week bender...