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...anchor in the scummy waters of Manhattan's East River, off 130th Street, lolled the 50-ft. white yacht Josephine with a red work flag flying at her masthead. For weeks & weeks Josephine had gone undisturbed about her business until one day last month the big seagoing tug Terminal bustled up, dropped anchor, went to work. From the Josephine came indignant cries of "poacher!" The men of Terminal retorted that nobody owned the river. A Coast Guard cutter appeared, ordered the tug to keep clear of the cables on the bottom. By last week the magic word GOLD...
...Hopeful that a binding knot of sentiment was tied between the Reichswehr and himself recently when every officer and soldier was made to swear personal loyalty to him, Realmleader Hitler sought to tug this knot tighter last week by announcing that he will exercise his powers of pardon exclusively in favor of members of the Reichswehr...
When Thomas Montgomery ' Howell felt the tug on his 550-yd. line, it was a half hour before noon. Captain Thompson pulled up anchor and Mr. Howell's fishing launch moved out of the harbor into the ocean. Behind it came the Thalia, Mr. Howell's large yacht...
Early that morning the battered, blackened barge Ready had been towed by the tug Powerful from St. George, Bermuda, to a point eight miles off lovely Nonsuch Island. Bracketed on the inside wall of the bathysphere were oxygen tanks. Trays of soda lime (to absorb exhaled carbon dioxide) and calcium chloride (to absorb moisture) were stowed in. Dr. Beebe and Mr. Barton wedged themselves in, smiling and waving. They were confident their bathysphere would stand up under the great pressure a half-mile down (1,300 lb. per sq. in.) because a few days before it had been lowered empty...
Next morning startled Kentuckians saw the ladies roll across the toll bridge over the Tug River at Williamson. "I'm just running around," Mrs. Roosevelt assured them. For a morning's amusement she drove down to see Henry Ford's coal mines at Pond Creek, then ran across into Virginia, lunched at a roadside stand near Norton and from her running board made a little speech thanking the crowd which gathered to gape at her. By nightfall the ladies had crossed through eastern Tennessee and were at Asheville...