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...therefore nude of any identification and the bewilderment of the local Fish Pier employe who brought it into my office was so genuine and so humorous that I decided to work it into a space-filler...
...total of $180,000, but the Soviet press presently announced that the tourists actually spent $250,000. "One man from Boston," said Pravda, "paid our Government 25,000 rubles [$12,750] for a silver tea set which belonged to the Tsar." Buying began on the very landing pier in a specially erected bazaar, stocked with products of Red workers and property confiscated from onetime Russian aristocrats, all of which the U. S. shoppers seemed eager to buy. They paid, according to Pravda, "more than $50,000 for confiscated property alone." Ever since the revolution the Soviet Government has been trying...
...coerced railroad and steamship lines into awarding concessions to G. M.'s subsidiary, Terminal Cab Corp. Yellow obtained from Supreme Court Justice Richard P. Lydon a temporary injunction to bar Terminal Cab from operating a concession recently obtained (at Yellow's expense) from the Furness-Bermuda Line, Pier 95, North River. Last week Counsel Henry B. Hogan for General Motors denied all charges, affirmed that the Yellow contract with the Furness-Bermuda Line had been merely verbal, chose the epithet "cry babies...
...races, George Ratsey looked over her sails, which he had built at his City Island lofts. (He also made the sails for the other defenders.) Fortunately for the Yankee, she rode quite a distance away from the Robert Jacob shipyard on City Island. Fire damaged that yard's pier. It destroyed about $200,000 worth of trophies, guns, silver, sails and equipment owned by Otto H. Kahn, William G. Vanderbilt, Walter P. Chrysler and others. Their vessels were absent. The fire also destroyed the winter home of the Vanitie, one of the cup defenders...
Photographers from Notman's Studio in Cambridge were present at the camp today to take pictures of the eights. The "Gypsy", owned by Robert F. Herrick of Boston, one of Harvard's most constant crew followers, arrived at the pier today after being fog bound at Wareham for the past few days. Last year the oarsmen went out on the power yacht several afternoon during race week, and it is expected tht brief excursions will be held next week...