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Sparkless Sal, first motorized piece of apparatus of the Cambridge fire department, has been retired after 13 years of faithful duty, tominated a month age by a fairly substantial crash with a garbage wagon following a skid on the icy streets...
...This rapid multiplication of roseate sufferers adds so greatly to the total in Stillman, that there are now more hands to hold than nurses to hold them. At present every House but Adams is represented among the afflicted, but the Gold Coasters entertain high hopes that they will soon crash through...
...Were shushed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and Colonial Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister when Laborite M. P.'s demanded to know whether Britain's Gibraltar-like "Big Five" banks were burned in the peanut oil, pepper and shellac crashes (TIME, Feb. 18, 25) and whether a crash in London's tin market may not be imminent...
Suddenly the little groups coalesced into one big one, which rushed the theatre. First fists flew. Then blackjacks. Policemen's nightsticks thudded in the dark. Growing momentarily, the crowd surged down the street to the Strand. Crash! Down came the advertising displays. Back & forth between the Strand and the Palace shuttled the mob. Someone had a crate of eggs. Others bombarded the police with hard cinders, soft, squashy fruit. Badgered policemen drew their pistols, spattered the pavement with bullets. Perhaps students, too, had pistols. One bullet ricocheted into the leg of Edward Nabors, 36, as he skirted...
...lively description of logging society, from the snowy Wisconsin camps to the over-stuffed comfort of a rich small-town community. Barney's defeat by his son, who got both pretty Lotta Lindbeck and his father's business, Lotta's adventures in European "society," the 1929 crash and the return to Wisconsin, are narrative trimmings for Author Ferber's slickly factual researches. Lumbermen may be impressed by proofs that she can talk their lingo...