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This was the fifth match of the season for the team, which has previously lost to the Merchant Marines, Annapolis, the Coast Guard, and the Mystic Valley Gun Club. Its score has improved almost 200 points since the first match against Mystic Valley...
...reaction among the Nationalists was one of gloomy foreboding, frustration, resentment. Said a Taipei lawyer: "When are people going to realize that appeasement of the Communists does not pay?" A broadcasting official: "I feel numb when I think of what is happening." A merchant in Hong Kong: "I just can't wait to see the day America will be 'liberated' by the Communists. They haven't been hit hard enough to see what's coming for everybody." Formosa's new troubles lent added weight to a psychological campaign which the Reds have been waging...
...Maroc Presse, who advocated a liberal, evolutionary solution of the Moroccan problem. Another bomb exploded in the home of a French industrialist who the week before had made a vague speech recognizing the existence of "difficulties." Meanwhile the terror kept up against the Moroccans themselves. One wealthy local merchant was cornered in his garage and riddled with machine-gun fire. Another was killed as he drove to work in his green Ford Anglia. It was broad daylight and two Casablanca cops were standing nearby. Both denied seeing a thing...
With a sweep of a pen, American President Lines, biggest West Coast shipper, contracted with the U.S. Maritime Board last week for the complete replacement of a merchant fleet. Over the next ten years American President will retire all its 19 ships, including the 981-passenger President Cleveland, and its sistership the President Wilson, replace them with 18 to 20 new ships. Total cost of the program: $225 million, of which the U.S. Government will pay $90 million, American President Lines the balance...
...overheard a woman in the subway describe an attempted robbery in which she was the victim, interviewed her on the spot and got a story in the afternoon paper. He has since worked on dailies all over Britain, during World War II found time while serving in the merchant marine to write crime stories whenever he docked in England...