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...Hoover line jerked, went slack, jerked again. Below the water a rapier snout struck at the bonito, crunched on the hook. The fisherman let his line out fast, as the creature sped away, leapt into sunlight, shook itself angrily. The Hoover line was taut again and remained so for 25 struggling minutes, as the next President and his first sailfish fought it out in the Gulf Stream...
Away onto the hot plain sped the Crane motor. Ten miles. At the village of Zubeir some shepherds shouted excitedly that there were bandits about. Twenty miles, thirty, forty. Every now and then Missionary Bilkerd would stand up in the machine and peer about, but he could see no bandits. Fifty miles, sixty, suddenly from behind rocks sprang the bandits, opened fire...
Cable. Most important of Western Union's undersea innovations is the newly laid, $2,000,000 link between Newfoundland and the Azores. Back and forth, last week, sped test messages. The service will be opened to the public this month...
With four soldiers clinging to hand grips on the sides of his limousine, and with two more soldiers on the box behind, President Chiang Kai-shek sped to the scene. As the mob of students sullenly parted to let him through, and then closed in behind, Marshal Chiang faced a nasty situation. The so-called "students" are really a conglomeration of all the younger and more violent partisans of the Nationalist regime. They would have to be wooed and harangued, not bluntly ordered to disperse...
Scurrying Paris reporters sped back and forth, last week, between the pandemonium of their offices and the grim, still Prison St. Lazare. Caged there sat a tremendously dynamic and even fascinating new prisoner. What she is charged with doing may well rank her with the great swindlers of all time- with fictional Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with factual Signor Charles Ponzi. All week the story continued to break bigger and bigger. The name of a Cabinet Minister was dragged in. But always at the focus of sensation sat in her little cell Mme. Martha Hanau, the supreme swindleress. Even...