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...Aiming squarely at II Duce's week-old pronouncement of self-sufficiency for Italy, timed shrewdly for London's current Imperial Conference whose outcome may decide a U. S.-Great Britain reciprocal trade agreement. Secretary Hull damned self-sufficiency "unless a nation is content to 'sink into abject degradation, economic and spiritual impoverishment"; called for "a demobilization of ... stifling . . . mutual mistrust, of political hostility, of exhausting and suicidal race for military power, of continuing economic warfare...
...When the late James B. Duke started to sink some of his tobacco millions into aluminum, 'Alcoa bought him out, the suspicion remaining that Mr. Duke was well aware of his potential nuisance value to Alcoa from the start...
With the 7-2 McGill defeat the only loss chalked up against them Captain Ford's team piled up a total of 57 markers against their Double I opponents, while the enemy was only able to sink 30 goals in the Crimson nets...
...London newspaper reported that "the whole tribe of surgeons put in a claim for the poor departed Irishman and surrounded his house, just as harpooners would an enormous whale." But Byrne had arranged with friends to cart his body to the Irish Sea, to weight it and sink it in deep water. Hunter, a Scotsman, learned of this, pursued the undertakers, cannily bought the body from them for ?500. Now Charles Byrne's mounted skeleton stands in London's Royal College of Surgeons, next to the skeleton of a dwarf once named Caroline Crachami, who does not reach...
...week's end at Wheeling, W. Va.'s island in midriver, householders were scrubbing mud from their recently submerged floors, shoveling debris from their sidewalks. Portsmouth, Ohio, a sump within its $750,000 seawall which the flood had topped, watched the muddy waters gradually sink back through the sewer gates as the river receded. Cincinnati, perched on its hills, up to its waist in water, felt the chilly flood fall slowly back, trembled as its gas mains were reported leaking,, a bigger fire menace than when gas tanks bobbed among its factories in the flood (TIME...