Word: fates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these raider rumors seemed remote and nebulous, the fate of 16,697-ton Rawalpindi was definite. This ship, a fast Peninsular & Oriental steamer requisitioned by the Royal Navy and armed as a merchant cruiser, was assigned to the North Atlantic contraband patrol. When she was sunk Nov. 23 southeast of Iceland with the loss of 280 lives, the Admiralty announced her attackers were two German raiders, one of them the pocket battleship Deutschland. The Admiralty said that when Rawalpindi ignored a shot across her bows, Deutschland fired a salvo with her 11-inch guns at 10,000 yards. Rawalpindi replied...
...Government to "bridle the [Finnish] provocateurs of war." Foreign newsmen were allowed to send out reports of huge concentrations of Soviet troops in the Leningrad district which, it was said, were ready for action. The Moscow radio called upon the Finnish people to overthrow their government and "escape the fate of Poland...
...closer to the stands, President Vanderbilt last week contemplated shrinking Belmont's traditional racing strip to 1⅛ miles-the same size as the tracks at Saratoga, Hialeah, Washington Park and Arlington Park. Whether the proposed track will be ready for the 1940 spring meeting is problematical. The fate of the Widener Chute, also unpopular with railbirds because the horses start almost a mile from the stands and finish at an angle, is as yet unknown...
...temporary "war-chest" voted by the Corporation for the present year has merely postponed the Council's fate. With an annual schedule of fifty debates, its expenses total about $200, only a fraction of which can be raised by the newly-instituted membership dues. Unless some way of obtaining funds is found, the Council will be obliged to shut up shop next year--leaving the Coolidge prizes to be awarded to the best debaters on a nonexistent team...