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...Strait, the ice pack closed its fist, began its inexorable squeeze. On the decks, in the rigging, in Professor Schmidt's beard, a heavy load of ice formed. Last week the ice pack broke the Chelyuskin's steel heart. From bow to engine room the port side stove in amid great grindings and crunchings. The sudden cold burst the steam pipes. A plank swept the chief steward overboard...
...Illinois in 1881. He started as a night police reporter, was soon covering murder trials at the Criminal Courts Building. Later he was assigned to the anarchist uprisings that preceded the Haymarket riots. Like other Newsmen, he wrote his stories in longhand, warmed his shins at the fat-bellied stove in the "local" room...
...into the low-price field dived Chris-Craft, the company founded by Christopher Columbus Smith and now run by himself, his four sons, three grandsons and two granddaughters. They offered a utility runabout for $495. Another notable new Chris-Craft is the 24-ft. family cruiser with four berths, stove, ice box and toilet for $1,495. The minimum in overnight comfort (two berths) in a utility cruiser, can be had for $1,295 plus $45 for a toilet. Chris-Craft also has its line of runabouts, ranging up to a showy 27-footer...
...warped into place with less than a foot to spare. Crowds stood in line to go aboard and gape at her two staterooms with yellow brocaded bedspreads; her tiled shower with hot and cold water; her three toilets, her spacious saloon; her dining nook; her galley with gas stove, refrigerator, pantry. Unusual for a ship of that size was the flying bridge, with all controls away from the social quarters. Accommodations: eight plus a crew of two. Price: $24,500, most expensive in the show...
...knows is what I sees in the papers" is the prefatory remark to the penetrating political comments of many hot' stove league observer. If you are willing to admit that in the past year of amazing activity along so many different lines, you don't even know what you have seen in the papers, Lindley's book will be an admirable introduction, review, or reference book on the New Deal. If you want scientific comment on economic or administrative phases of the Roosevelt regime, if you are looking for primer like explanations of the fundamentals of Tugwellian economics...