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...stricken city came Will Rogers, contributed $5,000 to relief, appealed to the U. S. for more, quipped: "The water works were destroyed. . . . Everything was destroyed but the brewery. ... An act of Providence...
...imagine that workers screamed at the top of their voices, that every automobile blew at least two blasts to every block. . . . But now there is everywhere a quiet as of a tomb. The natives, in the appalling realization of what has happened within two short days, have suddenly been stricken dumb...
Natives trembled at the persistent rumors that bandit armies were gathering to loot the stricken city. Marine officers paid no attention, knowing that the bandits knew perfectly well how thoroughly Managua was protected. A graceful gesture came from none other than Augusto Sandino, the insurrectionist who for years has been waging warfare against U. S. troops. By grapevine to Mexico it was announced that "all divisions" of the Sandino army would maintain an armistice until the emergency was passed...
...world's wheat crisis comes not so much from overproduction as underconsumption. It would be rash indeed to call for limitation of cultivation of cereals when in the world there are too many people poverty-stricken and grievously distressed. ... It is particularly fortunate that this conference is taking place in the calm political atmosphere of the moment...
...circled low over the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes on the Alaska Peninsula, landed on a level spot amid the active craters, took photographs and flew safely away again. Pilot Joe Crosson (who found Eielson's wrecked plane after the two-month search) flew from Fairbanks to diphtheria-stricken Point Barrow, bearing antitoxin...