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...steamship Rossia wallowed in the fog at Marseilles' rickety pier G. At her stern, a red flag hung limply in the November drizzle; on her funnel was the hammer and sickle.* Above the monotonous slap of the waves came occasional harsh orders, the melancholy strains of a Russian song...
Hwaiyin (southeast of Kaifeng) also fell to Government forces, while Harbin was menaced by General Tu Li-ming's advancing troops, who were spoiling for a fight in Manchuria "before the snow flies." Along the border of Russian-occupied Korea, Government soldiers were preparing a drive on Antung, "funnel for delivery of foreign [i.e., Russian] supplies to the Communists...
...funnel built into the forward part of her island had been blown across the deck. Like other vessels in the inner ring, she had been swung around so that her bow faced the detonation point. But the force which had done this had finished the Sara. The only vessel in the target array with a triple-skinned hull, she had nevertheless been ripped open below the waterline. Slowly she settled, listing ever more sharply; seven hours later the 33,000-ton carrier sank...
...industry, free of major strikes last week, was not free of major troubles. Biggest was the shortage in steel. It had become so scarce, due to the production losses of the coal and steel strikes, that CPA Boss John Small slapped on priorities to funnel some 20% of all finished steel into essential industries-housing, farm machinery and railroad equipment, etc. How long the priorities system would last (it now applies only to the third quarter) depended on how quickly steel mills hit capacity production...
...central clearing houses in each state to match schools and students, funnel part of the overflow into junior and teachers' colleges...