Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese too had a New Deal last week. The entire Peiping Government of North China was reshuffled so completely that its Jack of Clubs, the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, vanished from the pack. From Central China came the dealer, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Carrying with him the portable powers of Life & Death, he roared north, preceded and followed by trainloads of Chinese soldiers who had actually been paid, possessed rifles, ammunition and such expensive luxuries as machine guns and bombing planes...
Five small whalers turned to the rescue. After a cold night of bobbing on the cake of ice, the explorers radioed the rescuing boats not to run any risks in the pack ice. The rescuers were to send up rockets and smoke signals. Another night passed without sign of rescue...
...motoring one day last December Mayor Peter E. Demarest of Oakland, N. J., encountered a pack of wild dogs trailing a deer. With a single bullet in his gun he brought down the dogs' leader, a powerful 150-lb. mongrel shepherd. Another dog in the pack viciously charged the Mayor, who had to leap into his car, bang shut the door. Last week he sought revenge...
...Several packs of wild dogs have been ranging northern New Jersey's game-filled Ramapo Mountains for some 15 years. Dwellers on lonely farms or town outskirts have shivered at the sound of their baying in the night. Hunters have found their trail in the hair & bones of many a deer and rabbit. In their veins runs the blood of abandoned or runaway pets-German shepherd, Airedale, collie, hound. Members of one pack are apparently crossed chow and hound, look like big red foxes...
...Camel) and P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold), who always act with Mr. Hill in price questions, followed suit. Dealers get a trade discount of 65? per 1,000. A price of 11? a package would give the dealers 1.3/10? profit. A. & P. was making only 3/10? a pack...