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Last week another shipload of troops sailed from Lisbon for the Azores, the third contingent that has gone there in the last three months. In Lisbon it was announced that Portugal's President, General Oscar de Fragosa Carmona, would also sail July 20 for a month's inspection tour of the Azores. Thus did Portugal serve notice that any U.S. attempt to occupy the islands as strategic outposts would be resisted...
...days after the Conference closed, Britain's Food Minister, Lord Woolton, urged U.S. citizens to "do without" some of their milk, cream, cheese, sugar, canned salmon and meat, send them to Britain to relieve "an unhappy and dull diet." Next day, the first shipload of U.S. Lend-Lease food - eggs, cheese, flour - arrived safely in England...
...Gneisenau (each 26,000 tons, each faster and better-armed than the late pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec), were indeed at large and as far west as the 42nd meridian. Displeased with the scare, the Axis press nevertheless aggravated it by jubilating at the alleged sinking of the first shipload of U. S. armaments bound for Britain under the Lend-Lease...
Coach Tom Bolles and his shipload of able seamen will be out to set a record for successive victories over the Blue when the Harvard Varsity shell matches strokes with Yale tomorrow on the Thames River in New London, in the 88th meeting between the two colleges...
...crossed on a liner with a shipload of Zionists, and by the time the boat reached England she was full of the Zionist cause. This got her a job covering the Zionist conference in London for International News Service and made her a newspaperwoman. To her new career she brought the same mixture of romanticism and vitality that had made her a successful suffragette. She got the last interview with Hunger Striker Terence McSwiney before he struck out in Cork, Ireland. She got the only interview with Empress Zita in Budapest after the second Karlist putsch failed. She borrowed...