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...managed somehow to scrape together 800 kroner to help pay for and provision the refugee barge. With Hugo Ennist. an inexperienced young captain hired at the last minute to guide them, they had set sail from Gäteborg at 2 o'clock one morning a fortnight ago. On the way out of the harbor they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water ran low and thirst high long before...
...only a fortnight later, a V-2 went wild internationally. It hit four miles from the center of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (pop. 48,881), made a fearful bang and dug a crater 24 feet deep and 40 feet in diameter. No one was hurt, and the people of Juarez, enjoying their spring fiesta, thought the bang was part of the show. But the diplomatic repercussions were painful. The White Sands brass, covered with cold sweat, told Karsch to work out a system for riding herd on rockets...
Black Gold. Near Wichita Falls, Tex., Gene Autry's sixth well, begun a fortnight ago, had come in handsomely. The drillers had struck oil at 5,000 ft. The well gushed 1,200 barrels the first day, settled down to a tidy daily flow of 1,000 barrels. (Autry owns equal shares in the claim with two Texas wildcatters.) Last week drillers started a seventh well, planned to drill some 20 more on Autry's property...
Jimmy Stewart reported a steady 800 barrels a day from his No. i well, brought in at 4,180 ft. near Vernal, Utah, last fortnight. Stewart and his partners (among them: Continental Airlines' President Robert Six; Howard Hughes's ubiquitous agent, Johnny Meyer; and General Aniline & Film's Chairman Jack Frye) had risked $75,000 on a tip Meyer got from a geologist who had previously tipped Meyer and Frank Sinatra to another payoff site (Sinatra's "Crooner No. i" well in Wyoming...
...varsity football team yesterday pranced through one of its longest and sharpest practice sessions in the last fortnight. It was devoted to the usual Tuesday chores--offensive and defensive scrimmaging, dummy drills, corrections, and a preliminary setting of defenses for Cornell...