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...course, I think in the interest of peace, there come moments when statements, conversation and headlines are not in order." The words were mild enough but the fact that the President took the unusual step of authorizing them for direct quotation showed that he wished them to sink...
...Green, Kentucky and other rivers, fed by continuing downpours, were still rising at week's end. Louisville was the hardest hit city in the whole flood area. Sitting on comparatively level ground where the Ohio drops 26 ft. in two mi., Louisville watched its west end sink under the yellow torrent which drove 200,000 from their homes. Telephone service was disrupted. The city was put on a two-hour water ration each day. As sewage backed up in the municipal disposal system, two typhoid inoculation stations were established. Bus and trolley service was abandoned and only the Southern...
...Bureau's defense flocked most of the airlines. Said one airline executive: "After all, we've got to fly the planes. You can't blame a lighthouse if you sink your ship in a hurricane," Said Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, War ace and general manager of Eastern Air Lines, which has never lost a passenger: "Conditions wouldn't be improved by Government control-they wouldn't be as good as they...
...successor, Mr. Hurley, has delivered himself of several promising statements regarding expenditure and other state matters. Such talk may be little more than pre-nuptial fantasy, but at any rate the citizens of the state can rest assured that he will not sink to the Curley level. Mr. Curley can depart in peace, sure that his leave-taking will be unwept, unhonored, and unsung in local history, except by writers of verse with unusually long and scurrilous memories...
...rectangular chasm, 125 ft. wide and running almost the entire length of the craft, into which disabled ships will be pushed at sea. When an ailing battleship is brought into position before the ARD-3, the dock's great bottom tanks will be pumped full of water to sink its keel below that of the battleship...