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...letters and cables from U. S. ambulance drivers and nurses in France. Example: Ambulance Driver Elizabeth Adams wrote to her Providence, R. I. parents: "Dearest Family ... I have been bombed-oh God -if you knew how it felt to have a plane go over you like a dark, vicious shark and see it drop its bombs. . . . We are often machine-gunned. . . . The planes come down so close. Damn them! ... I am frightened, yes-oh God-terrified. ... I was almost crazy with fear, but I had a job to do-to get out those kids (220 refugee children...
...crime today. Most States have laws which permit licensed, bonded small-loan companies to charge interest rates as high as 3½% a month (2½-3% in New York). In the last five years New York State Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. has been going after loan sharks who aren't satisfied even with this. In almost 200 convictions and injunctions he has secured the return of $278,000 to victims. Last week he got another: the biggest modern loan shark he had ever heard...
...adolescent antics are as funny today as when they were written. High spots are still Willie's drastic expedients to get pocket money to woo heartless, flirtatious Lola in style, his stratagems to purloin his father's dress suit, his difficulties with a used-car shark, his running feud with his snoopy, roller-skating little sister (Norma Nelson), his desperate moon-calfing and the beginnings of wisdom. Just as important to the meaning of Seventeen are the watchful restraint and troubled tact with which Willie's parents (Otto Kruger, Ann Shoemaker) try to make him work...
Delegates left this enormous detail to be settled in good time, embarked at once on a round of cocktail parties, formal dinners, golf-matches, swimming (behind the shark net at Fort Amur's beach). But in between festivities they labored hard on this intensification of the Monroe Doctrine, this deliberate abandonment of the freedom of the seas. At Sumner Welles's announcement of definite financial aid, proving the solidity of U. S. intentions, Latin-American diplomats leaped. Shortly...
...Copyright Office in the Library of Congress Annex in Washington since Nov. 16, 1938. U. S. Copyright #60332 is "A Dramatic Composition, In Five Acts And An Epilogue, entitled 'The Dictator,' by Charles Spencer Chaplin." Subtitle: "A story of a little fish in a shark infested ocean...