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Beneath Manhattan's East River, Diver John Forward was groping over the hulk of the S. S. Lexington which sank last January (TIME, Jan. 14) when a human hand languidly slapped him across the face of his helmet. It was the hand of a man whose feet had been caught under a packing case. The hand continued to slap Diver Forward until he had worked the body loose, sent it to the surface...
...necessity of expansion. Soon the U. S. was too small for him, he invaded Canada and England, bought the old British firm of Boots. United Drug's peak year (1929) grossed over $106,000,000. But Liggett had his downs as well as his ups. In 1921 he sank his personal fortune in a falling market, had to be rescued by loyal associates. In 1928 United Drug merged with huge Drug, Inc. to dominate the drug trade of the world. In the crash that soon followed Liggett lost his retail chain stores. Author Merwin does not divulge the size...
...that soft drink corporations like Coca-Cola would suffer, while companies making ginger ale and carbonated water as "mixings" would greatly benefit. Last week this belief was definitely exploded when Coca-Cola common marched into a new all-time high of $200 a share and Canada Dry Ginger Ale sank to a two-year low of $8.75. Canada Dry's directors had cut the quarterly dividend from 25? to 10? a share. White Rock Mineral Springs Co. sold off to a three-year low the week before when its directors likewise sliced dividends...
...sent out exploring expeditions of which one set a new "farthest North" by getting within 450 mi. of the Pole. A relief ship which the War Department had promised to send in the summer of 1882 failed to arrive. Next summer the relief ship cracked up in the ice, sank. Acting on his original orders, Lieut. Adolphus Washington Greely then led his party down the coast of Ellesmere Island from Lady Franklin Bay to bleak Cape Sabine. Expecting to find a relief party there, he found instead only a few supplies which earlier expeditions had left behind...
...rabbinate followed the forgiving lead of Polish Jewry, for many an Orthodox Jew cherishes the tradition of boycotting Spaniards. In his able We Jews, Journalist George Sokolsky characteristically reports : "England and Holland which used him [the Jew] prospered, while Spain, which excluded him, collapsed economically and its great Empire sank into a Mediterranean memory...