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...since become. . . . The Johnstown flood found her ready and within an hour after it was reported she was on her way to the stricken city. . . . Clara Barton did not look to government for support of her work. Governments are always too slow, frequently too shortsighted, to meet the sudden sharp demands of critical emergencies. She depended upon the instant response of the individual human heart. . . . The Red Cross is a living embodiment of the people's heart and soul...
...pictures enclosed by Reader Habicht shows the U. S. Navy's dirigible Los Angeles moored to the mast of the oiler Patoka at sea. The second picture shows the Los Angeles, blown skyward by a sudden gust, sweeping the16,800-ton oiler after it high out of water. No such incident ever did or could occur. Let Reader Habicht examine his copy Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung more closely. Let him note that it is the annual April Fool's edition. Other pictures in that issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing...
Despite its imposing victories over Princeton, Tech, Navy, and Penn, the Crimson is not the favorite. It goes up against two unbeaten crews in Cornell and Syracuse, and in Cornell is found the general choice to retain unbeaten laurels. Syracuse, forced by the sudden collapse of stroke Millon Weiler to make its erstwhile-University the Jayvee boat and to elevate the heavier but slower Tom Lombard shell to the first ranks, has lost ground in the pre-race expectations, while Tech, greatly improved, is taken into altogether too little consideration...
...result was to aid England which has been losing gold to the U. S. Over a longer period, agreed bankers last week, it should encourage foreign financing in the U. S., likewise issues by domestic companies. Yet last week the state of U. S. business was such that no sudden demand for funds was expected, no immediate revival held likely...
...which gushed sudden wealth into eastern Texas last winter (TIME, Feb.2), caused horror and tragedy there last week. Near Gladewater, Sinclair Oil Company's No. I Cole well was brought in. Instantly the null gusher went wild. While 14 men were trying to get the well under control, a spark caused by tool friction suddenly turned a plenteous natural blessing into a howling inferno. Some of the workers managed to dodge out of the flames, two jumped for safety into the slush pit where they were boiled alive. The rest were quickly roasted. Fatalities, originally estimated at twelve, then...