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Because they are spectacular and photographic, catastrophes like fires and floods stir public imagination, bring generous popular relief. Because they are intangible, slow-working disasters with long-delayed effects, droughts are soon forgotten and minimized by citizens outside the afflicted area. When the Mississippi flooded in 1927 the Red Cross quickly raised $17,000,000 by popular subscription for relief. The Drought of 1930 was left to the Red Cross to relieve with a $5,000,000 "emergency" fund and no special public appeal...
...will always remember Gary as a grey city of steel and flame and smoke. At No. 1112 Broadway, Gary, a few blocks from the business district, is Central Trust & Savings Bank. Its location is in that part of Gary known as "across the tracks," the great flat area where thousands of steelworkers dwell. The bank was established 21 years ago, and there are only two larger ones in the city. Several years ago it was rebuilt, given a black marble front, four marble pillars two and a half stories high. Its interior was redecorated. The steelworkers' accounts seemed safe...
...even have figures on the rate of this expansion during the last 2,000 million years. ... It is reasonable to assume that it [the universe] will continue increasing in dimensions at the same rate and 2,000 million years from now it will be scattered over twice the area it occupies now. . . . There will come a time when there will be nothing but emptiness left...
...Kelly-and let it slide around her neck and shoulders. When the snake was put on the committee table it rustled among papers, allowed Mrs. Owen to pet it. Dr. Kelly explained that king snakes, indigenous to the proposed park, are harmless, destroy rattlesnakes-also indigenous to the area. Confessed Mrs. Owen: she had never handled a snake before...
...week sent 150 bu. of salt and $700 in cash. No gift was this, but the annual payment in cash & kind stipulated by ancestors of the present Onondagas when the State purchased from them the site of the City of Syracuse in 1795. Reason for the salt: within the area of 10 sq. mi. originally purchased was all the salt in that region. The Indians apparently .had done without salt until 1654, when Jesuit Missionary Simon le Moyne discovered that a spring from which the natives would not drink, thinking evil spirits gave it its stench, was a fountain...