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Over the central section of North America there hung for weeks a blanket of clear hot dry air under high atmospheric pressure. Because air moves from high to low pressure areas, rainladen breezes from the two oceans were unable to penetrate beyond the rim of the U. S. The sun beat down through cloudless skies to blister the earth. Under normal circumstances low pressure areas known as "cyclonic storms" (not necessarily of "cyclonic" velocity and violence) swing periodically across the land from west to east, sucking in and mixing hot and cold winds, producing rain. This year such beneficent disturbances...
Industry throughout France's northeastern manufacturing area was paralyzed last week by a walkout of some 135,000 workers. Smoke rose from few stacks in the textile and metallurgical centres of Rouen, Amiens, Lille. Serious disturbance developed at only one point, Roubaix, close to the Belgian border. There 900 Belgian strikebreakers, being escorted over the line by police, were stoned. Twelve were injured...
...canvas mentioned is not less than half the size of the famous Cyclorama canvas of The Holy Land now at Ste. Anne de Beaupre, outside of Quebec. The dimensions of this are, as I remember them, 40 ft. by 360 ft. This canvas then has an area of 14,400 sq. ft. Six men worked four years to complete...
...Weather Bureau men last week compiled their July reports, declared the month was hotter and dryer over a larger area for longer periods than any other July in recorded U. S. weather history. The drought came too late to affect the wheat crop but it did, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, "much irreparable damage" to corn. Live stock, lacking pasturage and water, was rushed to slaughter houses before it died. The Farm Board prepared plans for "drought loans" to carry husbandmen over until next year...
...passenger to New York from the devastated area in Italy told how William Guard, longtime press agent for the Metropolitan Opera, immediately after the temblors mounted a balcony of his hotel half-dressed, played on a flute to calm the terror-stricken populace milling below...