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...this fund may come a final settlement of U.S. claims for land expropriated by Mexico since 1868. Of the $9,000,000 total of these claims, about $6,000,000 remains unpaid. Mexico plans to use the residue of the stabilization-fund advance for loans to industries (steel, rayon, tin plate) and for agricultural machinery...
...happened when Dick Harlow asked Bingham to take the famed Harlow tin whistle and give it a blast whenever the ball was downed. On the first play the ball was snapped, backs spun, and Bingham raced down the left side of the field...
...tin-hatted policemen in the squad car flashed a radio call. In a few minutes the square was full of the businesslike bustle of men going into action. First they put out the incendiaries, squirting chemicals on them and flinging sand. The bomb-removal squad swung picks to dig up the still-unexploded bombs and hauled them away. The decontamination squad, dressed in rubber suits and gloves, went after the gas bombs, sprinkling chloride of lime everywhere...
Last Thursday, at 5:08 p.m., bedlam broke loose in Brooklyn. Staid citizens dashed out of their homes and shops, yelling "We're in, we're in!" Housewives stood on their stoops, beating dishpans; kids tooted tin horns; barkeeps opened their taps, "set 'em up on the house...
...freighters ply routes new to them-around the Cape of Good Hope, for example, and into the Red Sea, with airplanes, tanks, guns and food for Allied forces in Africa. Others plough the Pacific to Australia, India and the Straits Settlements, come back deep-laden with rubber, tin, wool, hemp. For its trade links with Latin America, the Good Neighbor program must depend on U.S. ships...