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...Britain defended her right to sell dope to the Chinese by fighting and winning the Opium War. Shanghai was made one of five Treaty Ports opened to foreign trade. Other nations saw the importance of the city. France and the U. S. acquired territorial concessions there. Shanghai became the funnel mouth for half the commerce of China. Today it is the greatest port in the East, fifth most important port in the world. Defending the International Settlement and the French concession are British, French, U. S., Italian, Japanese troops. Three thousand U. S. citizens live there. There is an enormous...
Because of that ever present hazard, fuel is ordinarily strained into an airplane's tanks through chamois or billiard-table felt, which are impervious to water. The process is slow and not without danger of fire, as the strainer easily becomes clogged with sediment and the funnel full of gasoline is constantly exposed to static electricity. Last week it. was disclosed that the Army Air Corps had adopted a filtering device with neither of these bad features, invented by Master Sergeant David Samiran, stationed at Wright Field, Ohio. The invention, known as a segregator, is based on the difference...
...various symptoms of modernity which His Grace the Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York, views with alarm, were added last week funnel ears. Gently flaying radio, His Grace said...
...apprehensively. It was turning black, blacker. It was shot through with greenish-yellow light. Wind clouds bellied down to earth. Without hearing its far-off rumble, he knew a tornado was near, jerked his throttle wide-open to outrace it. Out of the murk it came, an infernal funnel of dust and cloud, spinning along toward his train across the prairie...
Roald Amundsen was the name of a 15-ton, one-sail vessel, built to resemble (except for a galley funnel) the oldtime Viking ships, which reached Havana last week from Port Palos, Spain, after a 42-day voyage. Aboard: a crew of four and Captain Gerhard Folgero, good friend of the late Explorer Amundsen. Their aim: to collect funds to erect an Amundsen monument...