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"The question of economic loans . . . should be decided on a broad and far-sighted basis. . . . Let the terms correspond with the facts and the probabilities. Such loans, even though they may appear to some to be unusually liberal, can in the end be helpful not only to the country which...
Members of the Hunt in bright-colored coats whose facings identified their clubs (Warwick's black and scarlet, Duke of Beaufort's buff and blue, North Warwick's grey and pink) mingled with Yeomanry regiment officers in white Prussian collars and tailcoated nonhunters. They danced to American...
Food ran low; the Erma's passengers ate but one meal a day. To cook it, one woman held a Primus stove down on the deck, a second held a pan to the flame. Often the stove bounced and rolled; food and fuel spilled, threatening the boat with fire...
Floor-Gazer. Iko Hashimoto testified. He had sighted the Indy at a range of 11,000 yards (in such visibility, the prosecution charged, the cruiser should have been zigzagging); her straight course had given Hashimoto an easy torpedo solution -so easy, he said, he had not bothered to use "human...
Republican Representative Bertrand W. Gearhart caused a slight flurry when he told newsmen that the cruiser Boise, en route to Manila from Pearl Harbor, had sighted a Jap task force but had not communicated its news because the skipper had been told to observe radio silence-and saw no reason...