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...Control. Nor did the Ottawa Government's long-range plans offer much encouragement. The government indircated that wage control, which organized labor had riddled fore & aft, would be dropped in two or three months' time. But price control would be maintained for at least another year...
...foggy darkness, 700 miles west of Land's End, two U.S. merchant ships collided. The American Farmer, with a 35-foot hole in her port side, soon had her forward holds full of water and her fore-decks awash. The William J. Riddle took aboard the Farmer's 57 passengers and crew, transferred them to another U.S. ship, and then made shore at Barry, Wales, with her own bow stove in at the waterline...
Committed to the same principles that characterized its English fore bearer, opposition to the system of private enterprise and advocacy of evolutionary socialism, the New Fabian Society will hold its first meeting in the Adams House Upper Common Room at 8 o'clock tonight...
...coerce all but the most recalcitrant of the Senators into hearty consent. Having thus hurdled the bulwark of traditional American isolationism, international planners peered with sparkling eyes into a future of unthrobbing war drums and furled battle flags. A people eager to believe took no stock in the gloomy fore-bodings of scattered pessimists...
With sirens screaming and bunting gay in the rigging, a dozen stout-planked ships had slipped through the Narrows of St. John's Harbor and out of sheltered northern ports. If they came back in four to eight weeks with prime pelts stowed fore & aft, every swiler would get around $200 apiece for his voyage. If they came back clean, both they and the merchants who backed them would get nothing. As always, the hunt was a gamble...