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...When a small shipment (16,000 rounds) of Mauser cartridges consigned to him as "Glassware" was seized by the police of Linz last year, Prince von Starhemberg blustered: "I am only sorry that I did not personally fetch this shipment of ammunition as I am accustomed...
...helium supply, had selfishly prevented any of the gas from being exported. President Hoover deemed this insinuation worthy of White House denial. The Department of Commerce revealed that it has only once refused permission for the exportation of . helium. That was because of insufficient information as to the shipment's destination and use. Nine other shipments have been permitted, no others, requested...
...sending to Okuyama, c/o The Japan Advertiser, a shipment of paper napkins, much better for nose-wiping purposes than the pieces of shimbun (newspaper) being distributed by Citizen Takahashi...
...fences and jabbed the horses and mules as they came close. We spread germs in their food and in their drinking troughs. We did it at the stockyards north of Van Cortlandt Park, maybe just across the Yonkers city line, where horses were being collected [by the Allies] for shipment to France. I swear...
Last week a few U. S. citizens with sporting friends abroad were eating grouse -plump red Scotch grouse sent by express steamers and heralded by cables giving warning of their shipment. For a fortnight the shotguns that the Scotch call "double pipe scatter guns" had been popping on the moors. King George was there to get a little shooting before seeing his new granddaughter (see p. 21). John Pierpont Morgan was at Gannochy Lodge and Clarence Hungerford Mackay at Hunt-hill, Brechin. Bernard Baruch could not stay but Silkman Emil Stehli and Charles Steele of the House of Morgan were...