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Engineers, electricians, stokers and water tenders clambered aboard. They made fast tow lines from tugs out of Gibraltar...
...smuggling up the south China coast out of Hong Kong last year was the Japanese Navy. For approximately 34,000 Hong Kong dollars a month (U.S. $8,500) Japanese Navy agents granted smugglers the right to sneak into China one tug with as many barges as it could tow up the coast. Military supplies were forbidden but gasoline was permitted. A Japanese agent accompanied the tug to give the O.K. to any inquisitive warship of the Imperial Navy...
...Trinity River valley in east Texas preaching agricultural betterment to the families of the Big Thicket. In 1933 he put on a personal promotion campaign for canalization of the Trinity by piloting a skiff from Dallas to the Chicago World's Fair. The skiff tied into a Mississippi tow going north from New Orleans. Three or four days out, according to river bargemen, the cook complained to the captain that the Commodore ate too much. The captain ordered the Commodore listed as "four guests" for the rest of the trip...
Recalled from his wedding trip after only three days, Marine Corps Captain Jimmy Roosevelt hove wanly to, with his bride in tow, in San Francisco. "It's pretty tough to have to break up a honeymoon like this," declared Jimmy, "but duty is duty." Duty: to Clipper at once to the Orient, leaving his bride behind...
...climbing out of the B ranking, but this latest Charlie Chan is different enough to be clever. Sidney Toler, Warner Olan's successor as China's Confucius-Sherlock Holmes combine manages to keep a boatload of psychopathic treasure hunters, a pirate ghost, and his number-two son well in tow. If you can see Chan. Even if you can't, see Hope--the dope...