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...single bale of cotton would grow on his land this year. His 1926 production had been 300 bales. "Dixie" may still be the "land of cotton," but that portion of "Dixie" hit by the Mississippi flood has become the land of the cotton-less. The people of the flood area in Louisiana are as luckless as would be the officeworkers of Manhattan should an earthquake topple the skyscrapers into lower Broadway...
...relief system to function; and a growing resentment toward the inactivity of the Federal Government. Destitution. It is about 17 miles from Delta Point, La., to Tallulah, La. In this territory Mr. Speers counted 234 houses still in water up to their roofs. A large portion of the flooded area is still half-lake, half-swamp; one can leave Tallulah only by train, by boat or by swimming. Even in places where the waters have more nearly sub sided, people find a foot of mud and slime in their houses, or sit on their porches and look out upon water...
...Holy Land trembled and was shaken last week from Jerusalem to Jericho (13 miles) and very largely along the banks of Jordan. Outside the quake area were Bethlehem and the Dead Sea on the South; and Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee in the North. Between these two seas (65 miles apart), an area roughly 55 miles in diameter trembled. Killed were some 670 persons?not one of these reputedly a U. S. citizen or Jew. Injured were more than 3,000 natives and a few scattered Occidentals. Property damage, hasty appraisers said, exceeded...
Many citizens of the free and independent Republic of Bolivia were somewhat downcast last week by what might seem a trivial cause. Bolivia is almost twice as large in area as Texas and has about the population of Chicago; but last week this sovereign state was troubled by the destruction of its entire merchant marine. The destruction was trivial in its way, because the Bolivian merchant marine consisted of a single ship, the Presidente Saavedra, named for onetime (1921-26) President Dr. Bautista Saavedra* of Bolivia. In the spacious harbor of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the one-ship fleet of Bolivia...
...Meanwhile, Shell Union Oil Co., after spending $100,000 to drill a well down 6,000 feet near Marshall, Logan County, Okla., had just tapped an oil level new to Oklahoma. Theirs is the deepest paying well there, producing 3,600 barrels of crude oil daily.* The nearby Seminole area of Oklahoma with more than 550 wells last week established a new record for one day's output-444,000 barrels. This, however, was just one half of what the whole state averaged for the day. This production, considered with the 2,530,850 barrels produced on the average...