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...Conquerors were reading the only issues available. ... On the S.S. Kaiping for instance. She's a stinking little coal-tramp, plies between Chinwangtao and Shanghai, British boat, British and Chinese crew, and never leaves China's waters, but out of 27 old and lop-eared magazines in the dining-reading-card-smoking-lounging room, 13 were American of which six were TIMES. Think of it. I know, because we had 48 hours in a typhoon and we had to stay below, so I found and read all they...
...thirds of the total shares held for a $4.50 prior preferred; let the new shares have preference over the old in future dividends but no rights to accrued dividends. This arrangement would cut gross preferred dividend requirements from $6,300,000 to $4,800,000 and lop off two-thirds of the accrued dividend bill (saving well over...
...Tigertown, the Jayvees may find troubles as the well-balanced Orange and Black Jayvee aggregation has already chalked up two lop-sided wins while suffering only one defeat...
...stable's 1939 winnings. But three-year-old Johnstown, Kentucky Derby winner, has been the sensation of the 1939 racing season. Toasted as another Man o' War when he made all his contemporaries look like hobby horses early in the season, Big John, a homely colt with lop ears, upset the dopesters when he was beaten by William L. Brann's Challedon in the Preakness...
Testifying against the Wagner Health Bill on the grounds that it might loose a flood of needless Government-given medical care, Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, rhetorically demanded: "Shall there be also plastic surgery at public expense for all degrees of lop ears or a saddle nose...