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...races for Tom Bolles' charges, who are now priming for their Saturday meeting with Cornell, Princeton, and M.I.T. on the Charles. The race will start at the Cottage Farm Bridge, near the Tech boathouse, and finish on the approaches to the West Boston Bridge off the Community Yacht Club float...
...Float a Loan...
...because the war-weary people have lost confidence and interest. Though they sadly need the aid that the U.S. might proffer, they know that it is not reasonable of such a government to ask it. But we feel certain that if the U.S. Government or any responsible organization would float an American loan in France, at almost any exchange rate, and almost any interest, it would be covered overnight by the French people, who would thus guarantee the sums necessary to provide what they so greatly need...
...cities of northern India. His buglers herald his arrival at railway stations. Bands play God Save the King because "that's the only tune they know." Victory arches go up, rose petals flutter down from the rooftops, richly bedizened elephants, camels, mounted guards of honor accompany the Hollywood float in which Jinnah rides. Today Jinnah, and not the hated Hindu Gandhi, is prima donna on India's stage...
...military men planned to explode one bomb in the air over a fleet of 97 ships moored in the atoll; then to detonate a second bomb placed on a float, to see what kind of hell the thing would raise at water level...