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...Mexico, Arizona, Georgia and Mississippi are the most lightning-liked states, with an annual fatality rate of ten in a million population. Pacific Coast states and the Middle Atlantic seaboard states are the safest: (less than two per million in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and southern New England...
Last week the U-boats' return to the American seaboard was announced. Atlantic skippers told of twelve-hour running fights. Now Doenitz sent his raiders hunting in multiple packs. His U-boats attacked in waves-first to disrupt escorts, then to bore in among the helpless merchantmen for the kill. To supplement the work of the U-boats was a still-powerful German surface fleet, reportedly moved from Norway fjords, possibly operating again against Atlantic convoys...
...make them wonder how the results would be used. "The circumstances were also apparently such as to annoy the students and to invite ironical and flippant answers." the Crimson pointed out. "For example, Portland, Oregon was frequently said to be located on the Mississippi River or on the Atlantic seaboard, and Franklin Roosevelt was listed among the Presidents who have been assassinated...
...motivation behind it and to make them wonder how the results would be used. The circumstances were also apparently such as to annoy the students and to invite ironical and flippant answers (e.g., Portland, Oregon, was frequently said to be located on the Mississippi River or on the Atlantic seaboard, and Franklin D. Roosevelt was listed among the presidents who have been assassinated...
...arrangement with Britain whereby Spanish vessels could carry limited quantities of South American oil through the British blockade. Said Sumner Welles: "Adequate guarantees have been furnished . . . that none of these petroleum products will leave Spain. . . . The transportation . . . has no relation to petroleum products available to the Eastern seaboard...