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...declared that he will furnish Don with an English boat, powered with Rolls-Royce engines, under the Harmsworth rules that a driver must represent the country of his citizenship in a boat of local manufacture. This gesture, if carried out, will help to re-establish American sportsmanship after the blow dealt it by Gar Wood. JOHN PRENTIS WOOD...
...autopsy revealed that Collings had been alive when thrown into the water, although the blow on his head was enough to have caused his death. This substantiated many points of Mrs. Collings' story: There had been a struggle before Collings' hands were bound. He had cried out: "They're putting me overboard!" The fact that his hands and feet were bound started police searching for a second victim. Mrs. Collings had said the two killers told her husband they had a wounded man with them. N. L. Noteman, the fisherman who found Barbara Collings on the drifting...
There was a lull in the storm. The superintendent of police went about warning the city that another, more vicious blow was expected momentarily. It came sooner than he expected. With it came a tidal wave. It poured over the city its mammoth salty blanket. It knocked the police officer's car spinning, drowned him. It seated a 200-ton vessel on the customs house roof. It demolished nearly every house in town...
Less than seven hours after the Belize blow, a second hurricane bore up from the southeast on San Juan, P. R. Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. had just left for the U. S. The wind lasted 45 min., killed two, knocked out communications for a day, slightly damaged the grapefruit crop, burst in the windows and thoroughly soaked "La Fortaleza," Governor Roosevelt's mansion...
Interviewed, Belgian industrialists credited the country's happy state to the German army. At one blow old-fashioned factories, mills and mines were wiped out. After the War they were rebuilt with German reparations money in accordance with the most modern production methods, thus giving the country a great advantage over Great Britain, for example, most of whose industrial equipment still remains antiquated...