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...bulky bundles of papers out to the customers once they were printed, fell to Circulation Manager Hugh Dasbach, 62, who has been delivering the paper since he was 14 years old. Days before the high water, he had foreseen trouble, had lined up trucks, airplanes, wagons and a small flotilla of boats to get the papers through, over and around the floods. Sample detour: the truck to Manhattan-120 miles away-traveled over a 470-mile detour through St. Joseph, Mo. and Marysville, Kans...
Custine reports that when a squall hit a flotilla of small craft carrying "chosen bourgeoisie" on an outing to Czar Nicholas I's seaside palace, scores were drowned. The newspapers suppressed the disaster, so as not to "distress the Czarina [or] imply blame to the Czar." By a similar procedure, when a serving girl was murdered in a back street, the police did not bother to report the crime, but were careful to make a few rubles by selling her body to medical students for dissection...
...banning any visits to Helgoland, then told German authorities to enforce it. A British revenue cutter ordered to the scene was damaged by ice floes and forced back to base for repairs. A Royal Navy patrol boat met the same fate. The ex-German navy captain of a minesweeper flotilla, now operating under British orders, refused to send his ships...
Customs officers were allowed on the mother ship, where the flotilla master explained: "The Russian fishing industry urgently needs more trawlers in the Black Sea." He was waiting for other trawlers to catch up and refuel, then all would proceed on through the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The naval maneuvers were to be held in the Bay of Biscay...
Last week at Annapolis for the Eastern sprint regatta, McMillin got another chance to change M.I.T.'s status. With 34 eight-oared shells from 13 colleges competing, spectators saw the biggest flotilla ever assembled for a crew regatta in the U.S. But for McMillin there was only one other shell on the Severn River: undefeated Harvard, which had lost only nine varsity races since 1937, had already beaten M.I.T. twice this year...