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...Does anyone suppose that if the Elizabethan Theatre . . . had been under public control it would have produced Shakespeare? . . . Mr. Justice Shallow in all his many guises would have greatly exerted himself to, as it were, keep Sir John Falstaff...
...strategic materials. Not satisfied with waterfront facilities at Macao, they have set up their own transfer port for smuggled goods on the islet of Lap Sap Mei between Macao and Hong Kong. Here, instead of lightering, overseas ships tie up at a new pier, unload into junks of sufficiently shallow draft to make the mud banks up to Whampoa, or transship for Tientsin and Dairen. Through Lap Sap Mei now travels about one-third of all shipping to China. Most of the ships that call there are Communist-owned, but occasional vessels flying Western flags, including the Union Jack, have...
...Spain and Portugal-was a symbol of the flourishing postwar trade between Europe and Great Lakes ports. Shippers estimate that the all-water route is 10% to 20% less costly than rail-water transshipment from Europe via New York City. There are now 44 ships in the service, all shallow enough in draft to navigate the St. Lawrence River canals (maximum depth: 14 ft.) and short enough to get through the smallest lock...
...bringing in its fifth producer out of eight wells drilled in the Montana section of the basin, Shell had apparently tapped a rich new pool. The new well showed that there are five different levels of oil-producing strata, as shallow as 6,800 ft. The oil itself was high quality, easy to refine...
These contrasting scenes were made possible only by the revolving stage, for the absence of wings and the shallow depth of the Pi Eta Theatre make the storage of the elaborate flats that would have been necessary impossible...