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...Washington, not in the U. S., but aboard ship on the River Plate off Montevideo, Uruguay. The crew of the S. S. Algic, a 5,496-ton freighter owned by Joseph Patrick Kennedy's National Maritime Commission, refused to help unload cargo onto a lighter in midstream. Uruguayan longshoremen were on strike against employment of non-union labor. Inspired to a quixotic display of labor solidarity by three rabid unionists, the Algic's seamen swore they would not work with scab longshoremen until the River Plate froze solid...
...crisis for the Japanese occurred two days later when Chinese soldiers plunging in wave after wave against the street barricades of Japanese marines, broke through the line to the north river bank held for many hours about five full blocks of Whangpoo dockyards. Promptly the Japanese warships in midstream upped anchor and steamed slowly past the broken line Too close to depress the muzzles of their big guns sufficiently, they passed in review pouring a hot stream of fire from every machine gun and light cannon into the Chinese lines...
...these reports was there any eyewitness corroboration. From the windows of the two hotels could be seen the placid bosom of the Whangpoo, and lying at anchor in midstream a line of foreign warships, prominent among them the elderly Japanese cruiser Idumo, flagship of lynx-eyed Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Japanese commander-in-chief at Shanghai. While newshawks were still discussing their crop of rumors the antiaircraft batteries of the Idumo crashed into action. Somebody looked at a watch. It was exactly...
...Alaska in winter and spring, everybody talks about the weather and nearly everybody does something about it. Midstream in the ice-locked Tanana River at Nenana, a Government railroad junction, some 60 mi. southwest of Fairbanks, a 25-ft. pole stands upright, frozen fast. "Nenana Ice Pool'' reads a sign that it holds aloft. From the pole a wire runs ashore to the trigger of a time clock. During the early spring, Alaskans pay $1 for a chance to guess the exact day, hour and minute that the ice will move far enough down the Tanana to take...
Bonneville dam is really not one dam but two, situated catercorner to each other on opposite sides of Bradford Island which lies in midstream. It has a single-lift lock which will raise vessels 66 ft., higher than any other single lock in the world. Since it is the only dam in the U. S. (except abandoned 'Quoddy on the opposite side of the U. S.) situated on tidewater, it will enable ocean-going vessels, once channels have been deepened, to go 50 miles farther up the Columbia to The Dalles, and when eight or nine more dams...