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...heads of his family. In nearby El Centro, a fire wall tumbled down on Clifford Moore. All through rich Imperial Valley, one night last week, ran the earthquake's shivers. They shook down buildings, cracked open the irrigation canal that carries the Valley's water, let precious water flow out over Mexico. Damage: more than $2,500,000. Dead: Mrs. Mullings and her children, Clifford Moore, four others...
...acquired a new urgency last week. For Britain has been importing 200,000 tons of steel a month from Belgium and Luxembourg; and last week, with Luxembourg gone and Belgium going, England (and France) began rushing tonnage orders to the U. S. for steel products. If Britain is using precious foreign exchange while disemploying her own most efficient mill in order to protect the cartel's price structure, Herbert Morrison will have something to say to Montagu Norman...
South Carolina's grumpy, mastiff-faced old Ellison DuRant Smith may be the Senate's No. 1 mossback, but South Carolina loves him still, treasures him as a precious relic. South Carolinians affectionately acknowledge that "Cotton Ed"*opposes progress in almost every conceivable form. But by last week many veteran Smithies had become anxious over the opposition of Sixth-Term Senator Smith to a Third Term for President Roosevelt...
...than 40% of battle casualties, that a cigaret case, a pocket Bible, a packet of love letters will sometimes stop a metal sliver. He concluded that a curved steel plate, easily slipped into a special pocket of a gas-mask container, would protect most of a man's precious lights...
...these events immediately to help or hurt them much. For Britain, which can at any time add the better part of Norway's fleet of 272 tankers to her own, can haul its Near East oil around the Cape of Good Hope, and is not likely to spend precious foreign exchange buying U. S. oil until she has to. And while Sinclair's deal is for 20,000,000-30,000,000 bbl. of Mexican oil, his Consolidated Oil Corp. will take it out of Mexico at a rate of not more than 400,000 bbl. a month...