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...four-day battle was ending by prearrangement the Arkansas was hit by a torpedo and went to the bottom. Sinking, Admiral Willard flashed command of the Blue fleet to Admiral Reeves aboard the Saratoga...
When the Raymond & Whitcomb cruise ship Carinthia (chartered Cunarder) with 450 U. S. tourists aboard hove into Leningrad last week, obliging Soviet travel agents appeared, conducted them on a four-day tour (including Moscow) for which each paid $400. This figures out to a total of $180,000, but the Soviet press presently announced that the tourists actually spent $250,000. "One man from Boston," said Pravda, "paid our Government 25,000 rubles [$12,750] for a silver tea set which belonged to the Tsar." Buying began on the very landing pier in a specially erected bazaar, stocked with products...
...work days?three a week, the members having furiously opposed a four-day week, though for laboring men they favor six toil days between Sundays...
...year into 73 weeks of five days each. A week consists of four work days and one day of rest. Saturday, Sunday and all religious holidays are abolished but there are five national holidays: Jan. 9, anniversary of the massacre of Socialists in front of the Winter Palace in 1905; Jan. 21, anniversary of the death of Lenin; May 1, international Labor day; Oct. 26, anniversary of the October revolution of 1917; Nov. 7, anniversary of the flight of Kerensky. Important is the fact that these five holidays are the only days when Soviet factories and offices will close, that...
After the race the Imp and her three competitors were shipped to Detroit for a four-day regatta which includes the unrestricted British-U. S. race for the Harmsworth trophy...