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With matronly determination Queen Wilhelmina grasped a handle attached to a long wire, gave a resolute tug. At the other end of the wire the gate mechanism tripped. Slowly open swung two doors of steel taller than the biggest Dutch wind mill. Tooo! Tooo! Tooo! screamed the whistle of a new Dutch liner, the Johan Van Barnevelt (18,000 tons) as she steamed into lock. Doors closed. Sluices opened. In twelve minutes the enormous volume of 3,000,000 cu. ft. of sea water poured into lock. Gates at the far end opened. Out to the North...
Builder Story smoked a corncob pipe, watching the tug Eveleth pick up the schooner to tow her to Gloucester. Five generations of Storys, tall, spare, taciturn, have built fishing boats at the same deep crook in the stream called the Essex River . . . little Chebacco Boats, Heel Tappers and Pinkeys, the bigger boats of the 1850's, the 1890's. Like other Massachusetts builders, he thinks of racing as he sees a boat grow, but builds it for work. No fishing schooner races before it has gone fishing. The twist of the water on the boat's underbody...
...Peter, '67 Taft. In his sophomore year his father became, first, President Grant's Secretary of War and, next, his Attorney General. "Bill" Taft was president of the Freshman Boat Club, won a first prize with a sophomore composition, and helped pull the senior tug-of-war team to victory...
...Federal Farm Board, tobacco is an agricultural product worthy of relief. To the Treasury, tobacco is a highly valuable tax-producing commodity which brings in some 434 millions, or one-eighth of all U. S. internal revenue. Last week, Treasury and Farm Board braced themselves for a tug-of-war over the tobacco...
...First tug was given by James Clifton Stone, vice-chairman of the Federal Farm Board. From Kentucky, he represents tobacco growers on the Board. His proposal: a 50% reduction in all U. S. tobacco taxes. At the Capitol Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky and other members from tobacco-growing States were cheered at this potent support for their efforts, so far ineffectual, to ''relieve" tobacco growers...