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...launch the "Quint Fleet" of five freighters at Superior, Wis., the Dionne Quintuplets made their first trip to the U.S. Crowds jammed the station platforms along the way, some 15,000 turned up at the shipyard. There, during three and a half hours of oratorical and musical whoop-te-do, the five eight-year-olds sat on a lofty platform, at 45-minute intervals marched to a ship and smashed a pint of Niagara River water on a bow. Lefthanded Emilie, whose possible performance had caused a little worry, did beautifully with a masterly righthanded smack. Biggest applause...
Treasury Secretary Henry J. Morgenthau Jr. went to Portland, Ore. to spur the war bond drive, was given local apples to compare with his own New York State-grown product, compared them (see cut). At Henry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard a young worker remarked: "Say, I always have wanted some money direct from the Treasury." The Secretary reached into his right-hand exchequer, gave him two bits...
...games in two days will close down the Harvard home baseball season today and tomorrow. This afternoon at 4 o'clock the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard nine will come to Soldiers Field to tackle the Crimson team. Tomorrow afternoon, also at 4 o'clock, the Brown Varsity makes its only appearance of the year against the Stahlmen. Several weeks ago these two teams were scheduled to play at Providence, but rain delayed the contest...
...soldier comment upon the views presented by a "lawyer turned shipyard worker" (TIME, March...
...husband, the President, asked me to say to the Kaiser management how deeply he appreciates the wonderful work it is doing and to say to the men and women workers in this shipyard how deeply he understands the effort they are putting into their work, which means the more rapid ending...