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...outburst of patriotism prompted by yesterday's news reports on the Japanese situation, the builders and owners of the Chinese junk "Little Mermaid of the North Atlantic," launched on the Charles last spring, turned the diminutive vessel over to the United States naval authorities...
Although no word has yet been received from the Navy Department, the donors confidently asserted that their ship will be used either by the Intelligence Department, or as a "suicide junk," which will be loaded with explosives and used to blow up one of the key boats of the Japanese fleet. "Or else," they said, "her cruising range of 20 miles will insure the safety of our western coast...
Even in the most modern newspaper plants reporters' typewriters are almost always strictly marginal machinery. Hand-me-downs from the business office, or bargains from junk shops, they would not be tolerated one minute by any self-respecting stenographer. When they fall completely apart they are replaced in kind. Reporters operate them by brute force, cunning and fatalism...
...member of the House Banking & Currency Committee, Mr. Ford had sat patiently through most of the hearings on the hashed, compromised, junk-assembled Price Control Bill. He had listened while the committee got a triple-plated Ph.D. course in high & low economics from Price Boss Leon Henderson, in a steady examination that gave "The Great Jawbone" the probable all-time record for lengthy appearances before Congressional committees...
...pounders had missed the target, but the next wave (three Douglas B-18s) slapped in their loads without a single miss. Black smoke belched up in geysers, junk tanks flipped on their sides, armored cars flumped limply on their bellies...