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...There was a vicious punch in the storm's great white fist when it struck New York State. At Lake Placid the thermometer slumped to -12°, freezing out the hardy contestants in the North American bobsled races. In Manhattan, 9.2 in. of snow fell. In the metropolitan area 500,000 commuters could not get to work. The Stock Exchange opened an hour late. Setting aside another $2,000,000 to pay 50,000 men to dig his hard-strapped city out, Mayor La Guardia moaned: "I get the jitters every time I see snow." Because all city life...
...Long Island, with a two-ft. fall, the storm was no carbon copy. The Long Island Railroad completely broke down. Service beyond Jamaica was erratic for 48 hr. Much of the area was without milk and meat deliveries for two days...
...instruments, which represent one-third of that the Duchess of Mecklenburg had found, is important archaeologically because it is the only scientifically excavated material ever taken out of the region of the Northern end of the Adriatic Sea. This area was wrecked archaeologically in the last century by unscientific excavations...
...unearthed more than sixty graves in which this tribe had buried their leaders. So generous were they with their offerings to the dead that it took us three years to remove the material from one trench 80 feet long, and I doubt if any similar area has produced such a wealth of archeological specimens...
...cellars under an enormous unfinished pre-War building right in the center of the city. The jungle life of these catacombs demanded such a toll of blood, so many corpses were thrown naked upon the outer snow, that the authorities have put a high wooden fence around the entire area and plan next year to raze this whole city block. . . . Suddenly there materializes beside you a group of children, seven, ten, and twelve years old. They have gnomelike, filthy faces, childish eyes, shaggy hair, men's long coats, trousers pinned up or cut and ragged. They shuffle together, taking...