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...lower Danube, have shared a suppressed desire. In 1912 they ordered a statue of Catherine the Great's famed General Suvorov, Russian hero who liberated the city from the Turks. In nearby Odessa a suitable equestrian statue of the general was made, and was ready for shipment when World War I broke out. When that war was finished, Ismail was no longer part of the Russian Empire, and the new Red Russia was not interested in the memory of Tsarist heroes...
...crept through the fog into Manhattan's harbor last week was a French merchantman inbound from the Mediterranean. Stowed within her salt-stained hull were 6,000 cases of Hennessy brandy, 2,500 cases of Martell brandy, and four cases of Caron perfume. This was not a large shipment by prewar standards, but it was the first consignment of French luxury goods to arrive in the U.S. since...
...Eastern railroads could spare that many, cars for delivery to the Midwest, there was not much chance of the cars staying there. Last week the grain trade reported that the Army was in the market for 140 million bushels of wheat, 900,000 tons of flour for shipment overseas. Thus as fast as cars arrived in the West they would be loaded with Army grain and flour and shipped back to the Eastern Seaboard at the rate of 35,000 a month by midsummer...
...sinking in the Atlantic last summer of the S.S. Robin Goodfellow cost the University, according to the report, one-fifth of a year's photographic plates from the observatory at Bloemfortein, South Africa, which maintains a constant photo coverage of the southern skies. This was the first shipment of plates risked in two years from great quantities at Bloemfortein awaiting transfer to Harvard for analysis...
...make certain nobody would, handsome, hefty Robert L. Smith fortnight ago took another long jump. He has an agreement with American Airlines, Inc., guaranteeing daily, postwar air-freight shipment of Mission, Inc. flowers to New York-the first negotiation of its kind...