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...feet of helium, can cruise 1,500 miles at a speed of 55 m.p.h. As a submarine pursuer the blimp has many an advantage over the plane. It can hover motionless over its prey, move along with it constantly whatever its speed, fly below ceiling in all but the foulest weather...
...socialite sense, the foulest deed Dick Whitney ever did was to steal $105,184 in securities from the safe-deposit box of the swanky New York Yacht Club, of which he was treasurer. Last week his old club, anxious to recoup, filed suit for all he had embezzled, plus interest, against a less exclusive, more expensive club, the New York Stock Exchange. Ground for the suit, had the Exchange exposed its onetime president sooner, it might have prevented the yacht club theft...
...Your German is, of all foul and dirty fighters, the foulest and dirtiest. We must . . . give them hell in every sort of way." As rebellious criticism mounted, political dopesters even mentioned David Lloyd George the "Welsh Wizard" who won the last war for Great Britain, as a possible last-ditch Cabinet appointee. And from France came censored dispatches predicting soon the formation of a "sacred union," Government of all parties...
...Foulest blow of this new Nazi in-fighting landed under the belly of the 8,3O9-ton Dutch liner Simon Bolivar, carrying 170 crew and 230 passengers for Paramaribo, Surinam. Coasting at midday about 16 miles off Harwich, England, through a calm, sunny sea, she ran into two mines which tore out her bottom, killed her captain and about 100 others, injured 200. Most of the passengers were German-Jewish refugees, scores of them children...
...industry experienced nine beautiful months, then the foulest final quarter on record. In 1938 U. S. industry experienced six months of stagnation, then six of brilliant recovery. It was logical to expect, therefore, that corporate earnings for 1938 would turn out to be substantially, but not appallingly, below 1937. By last week enough year-end statements were out to show that, with the inevitable exceptions, this was the case. Samples...