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Steel boats-900 bottoms in varying sizes-lie listless in U.S. estuaries. It cost about one billion dollars to make them and it costs the U. S. about $2,700,000 to keep them from one Christmas to the next...
...Connor simply said he had had audience with Henry Ford, from whom he had wrung a tentative offer to take 400 of the listless bottoms at something between $1 and $7 per ton (scrap price). At $3 per ton, the entire listless fleet of 5,700,000 tons would bring about $17,000,000. Mr. Ford would probably pay about half that for about half the fleet-all is quite vague. Mr. Ford thought he might use 30 or perhaps only 10 for commerce; the rest for junk...
...cinema. It proves itself flimsy film material. The story tells of a titled Englishwoman stranded in Manhattan with the alternative of going hungry or to the Devil. Corinne Griffith does as much as possible (a very great deal) to pick the story up and put it on its listless feet...
This will be the initial outdoor contest for Coach Dempsey's first-year stickmen, and the third game of the season. Cushing Academy was defeated in a listless encounter 13 to 1 in the season opener on January 14, and a strong Kent School sextet was outplayed last Saturday 5 to 2. The 1928 forward line compares very favorably with that of the championship 1927 sextet and the defense has proved very powerful. Both Adams and Morrill have shown themselves capable of handling the goal guard assignment. It is chiefly in reserve material that the 1928 team compares unfavorably with...
Little Walker took the first four rounds. Savagely he tore into McTigue, slashed him around the ropes with rights and lefts, made small men stand up in their chairs. The next three rounds were not so fast; the fighters were listless. The bell rang for the eighth, both boxers dragged languidly into action amid a salvo of boos. More flaccid pommeling, clinching, pushing. A raucous fan began to sing Every Hour I Knead Thee, was silenced. In the last two rounds, McTigue feebly rallied. Referee Lewis gave the victory to little Walker. McTigue kept his title, as the boxing...