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...freighters ply routes new to them-around the Cape of Good Hope, for example, and into the Red Sea, with airplanes, tanks, guns and food for Allied forces in Africa. Others plough the Pacific to Australia, India and the Straits Settlements, come back deep-laden with rubber, tin, wool, hemp. For its trade links with Latin America, the Good Neighbor program must depend on U.S. ships...
This is the problem of Charles Fleischauer '43, whose attempt to climb the north stairwell of Weld Hall on a hemp rope ended in defeat when he was brought down by the antiaircraft activities of the Yard police late yesterday...
Fleischauer, who is an expert on the Dutch Elm Discase, spends his summers climbing Elm trees for the Government Dutch Elm Disease Control Committee. Feeling that he needed practice, he attached a half-inch hemp rope to a third floor radiator, let it down the stairwell and began his ascent while fearful room-mates clustered around...
...side of Manhattan's subway tracks. In particular it is about the underprivileged romance of pretty Bobby Halevy (Anne Shirley) and Rims Rosson (John Garfield), a shy, lovable, half-educated, half-awake johnny who invents gadgets that never work, dreams of going to Manila to try to turn hemp into silk. Father Halevy (Claude Rains), a bookkeeper, has spent a lifetime working himself into an insecure rut at a mail-order house. Mother Halevy (Elizabeth Risdon), a cinemaddict, has spent a lifetime knitting her husband a sweater, but has never finished it. There is also cheap, dissatisfied Florrie Halevy...
...Extreme isolationist view is that U. S. interests in China (with only two-thirds the value of the U. S. domestic barber business) and U. S. resources in the Philippines (gold, iron, chromite, manganese, tobacco, hemp, timber, sugar) are not worth holding at the risk of conflict; that the U. S. should withdraw to the Panama-Hawaii-Alaska front, strengthen defenses there...