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Belgian peasants fearing what was going to happen, scuttled inland. Finally the Zeebrugge dykes yielded to the sea's inexorable blows. Ninety feet of stone wall crumbled and the sea shot inland. Similarly fell part of the dykes at Nieuport. The water covered fifty square miles of farming land. Hundreds of cattle were drowned...
...Wall Street expects the $50,000,000 Grasselli Chemical Co. to absorb smaller firms. First mentioned is the $7,000,000 Calco Chemical...
Thus, with a glad hand, did Governor Young wave aside any little unpleasantness about speculation. The Wall Street bulls beamed with relief. The press was amazed. Said Writer B. C. Forbes, bluntly, in the New York (Hearst) American: "He said nothing. Either he was muzzled by the Washington powers that be, or more likely, he muzzled himself. A high-powered shell proved to be a dud. Politics, presidential elections, are responsible for more than making strange bed-fellows...
...Tarheel end considered the Harvard wings as the weakest factor on the team, the tackles as average, and the guards as the best men in the Crimson forward wall. Schwartz, he said, found little or no trouble in breaking through the center to nail line plays...
Coach Horween elevated W. D. Ticknor '30 to a position on the first team line, John Parkinson '29 filling the team B right guard berth. Ticknor and F. A. Clark '29 alternated at guard and tackle in an effort to find the strongest forward wall combination...