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...When the raft carrying the Prescotts downriver hits the rapids, the screen is awash with churning water, boiling spray. Faster and faster it goes, swooping like a surfboard, with all hands trying vainly to keep trunks, kettles, tent, and a sick boy from flying into the foam as the raft begins to break apart...
...converted tanker, the Queen left Beaumont on Feb. 2, bound for Norfolk and points north, with a full cargo of molten sulphur. The ship's last radio report, on Feb. 3, placed it 230 miles southeast of New Orleans. Two weeks later, pieces of a raft, a life vest, a broken oar washed up on Florida beaches. There had been no S 0 S, no warning of trouble. The Sulphur Queen and its crew of 39 had simply disappeared...
...raft of College and graduate school alumni in the government to draw on for assistance," McCloskey said. "If the program is kept small it can be a really excellent one and a great asset to the University...
...Squeak Emblem. Built by the Spanish and captured by Admiral Dewey, the ship looks more like a gingerbread house on a raft than a U.S. gunboat. She does not even have a full U.S. crew. Over the years, Chinese coolies in search of "squeeze" have slowly taken over all the work aboard-first the dirtiest jobs which no American sailor wanted to do, finally everything from cooking and laundry to electrical wiring and engine-room repair. By the time Jake Holman arrives, only the guns are reserved for U.S. control...
...63rd International Livestock Exposition in Chicago's pungent Union Stockyards, a gentleman farmer from Poughquag, N.Y., named Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 48, took home a raft of ribbons. His polled (hornless) Hereford cattle, part of a herd of 300 raised on his 1,100-acre ranch 25 miles south of Hyde Park, grabbed off ten prizes, including a first and second place award. A manager runs the place, but Roosevelt, who bought Clove Creek Farms twelve years ago, spends most of his summers there and keeps in touch from his Washington law offices the rest of the year...