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...ships in gay signal flags, beaming teachers gave school kids the day off. The cause for rejoicing was a letter from the Allied High Commission which lifted several restrictions on shipbuilding. German ships up to last week could not be larger than 7,200 tons or faster than 12 knots. Now Germans can have ships as big and as fast as they want, although a limit on overall tonnage remains. (Within two days North German Lloyd and Hamburg-Amerika ordered 14 new 16-knot vessels...
...second time Bill Martin had moved in to cut a knot too tangled for older fingers to unravel. In 1937, when William O. Douglas, then SEChairman, was denouncing the New York Stock Exchange as a "private club" with little concern for the public interest, the exchange's governors turned to Martin, an exchange member, to help set things right. Martin helped draft the plan which completely reorganized the exchange in 1938, and became, at 31, the exchange's first paid president. In 1941 he entered the Army as a private, rose to colonel. After the war, President Truman...
...plastic tip on the antennae which barely protruded from the drifts. But when I approached it I saw that the police had tunneled in their cute way to the right windshield wiper. Adding insult to injury they tied the tag to the rubber part of the wiper with a knot any boatswain would have admired. It defied knives and fingernails. Finally, I stripped it off and the rubber left the wiper like a peel leaving a banana...
Essay topics range from "How would you define a square knot?" to "Why do you believe 2 plus 2 equals 4?" The system of concise answers to these abstract questions eliminates the huge quantity of written work required in English...
...roadside, a mile from Seoul, lay the frozen body of a barefooted little boy, face down in a tangled knot of abandoned telephone wire. Past his stiff, straight body moved a torrent of refugees, carrying whatever possessions they could balance on their heads or strap to their tired backs. Few glanced at the dead child; the sight was too common...