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Since Blaschka and his father sent the first shipment of the priceless flowers to Harvard in 1887, the total output of their studio has come here. The last group of flowers to be sent, fifteen fruit models, arrived in 1936. There is nobody to carry on their work, because father and son always did their work without any assistants...
...Livers & lights were scared out of people in North Arlington, N. J. when a 3-in. "dud" shell, buried in a vacant lot since it landed there in 1917 after the explosion of a shipment destined for Russia from the Canadian Car & Foundry works, blew up when overheated by a Sunday bonfire...
Manhattan reporters last week journeyed to the docks to count cases of gold being unloaded from the Queen Mary. They counted 355 cases, thus estimated that the Queen brought in some $20,000,000. This was presently dwarfed by a shipment on the Manhattan estimated at $56,000,000, largest ever. At week's end four other liners were on the way from frightened Europe with $75,000,000 more to add to the $15,007,517,132.83 (57% of the world's monetary supply) in gold already admittedly in the U. S. Treasury's hands...
...break down its bars against the shipment of foreign exchange out of Brazil, which has played into the hands of the Nazi barter program...
...President went on to suggest, specifically, revision of the neutrality laws. he might also have cited the loan of $25,000,000 to China, which is stimulating Britain and France to grant similar loans; he might have cited the shipment of 600,000 barrels of American wheat to Spain" on the basis of need"--where need is principally Loyalist--and which has enabled that army to avoid surrender this winter. Peaceful methods such as these keep military force in the background, make it, literally and theoretically, a last resort...