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Across Portugal and northwestern Spain blew a violent hurricane. In Lisbon's harbor it smashed ships, fishing vessels and a British flying boat, sank a Portuguese warship. Near Zumaya it blew a train off a trestle. In the harbor of Santander an oil tanker exploded, pitched against a dock; fire spread from the dock to the city. Fanned by the wind, the flames cut a swath across Santander, destroyed the custom house, the Bank of Spain in the heart of the city, the 13th Century Gothic cathedral and hundreds of houses. Before the fire...
...traveled 14,000 miles. He had talked with four Prime Ministers, twelve Cabinet members, one King (and an African tribal chieftain on the way home), one Archbishop, the Lord Mayors of Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield, innumerable soldiers, policemen, laborers, dock workers, charwomen, waitresses, bricklayers, chemists, reporters, shopkeepers. He saw a Communist demonstration and, while bombs drooped outside, listened to a debate in the House of Commons. He had a long talk with men working on the London sewers, an all evening session that lasted until two in the morning with Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Lord Beaverbrook and Major Clement Attlee...
...rainy night last week in Manhattan, Emil Nizich, 26, dock worker and small-time racketeer, was on his way to a gym for a game of basketball. He was shot three times from behind, left dead in the gutter. The killer made his getaway. An hour and a half later, a few blocks away, young Joseph Moran was checking the unloading of a ten-ton truck. A stranger stepped in out of the rain. "Who's Joe Moran around here?" he asked. "That's me," said Moran cheerfully. The stranger shot three times, killed Moran...
...triple-acting Diesel engine with two pistons operating in the same cylinder won Patent No. 2,228,472, assigned to Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Claims: delivery, per pound of engine weight, of more than double the power of previous similar Diesels; cheap construction and operation. Two opposed pistons move synchronously together and apart in the cylinder. When closest together, they form between their inner heads a combustion chamber. Fuel is injected here and ignited by heat of compression (as in all Diesels), driving the pistons apart. Now two other combustion chambers are formed between the pistons' outer heads...
...idea: a pool of investment trusts to buy some of these British enterprises, perhaps sell them to the public. Quinn pointed to the pool Tri-Continental had formed last spring (TIME, May 20) that bought and later partly distributed the shares of great Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corp. But the idea was older than that. When William Orville Douglas was chairman of SEC and Jerome Frank was his running mate, the U. S. economy was stagnating for want of new capital investment. The investment bankers, having no capital to speak of, were taking only seasoned issues they could retail...