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...were reported. In Boston it went to ?18°, in Manhattan to ?14°, in Philadelphia to ?11°. Florida had snow and hail (which killed two cows). Dwellers on islands off the North Atlantic coast were icebound and had to be fed by airplane. Temperatures recorded included ?4?? at Lynchburg, Va., ?6° at Washington, ?8° at Richmond, ?8° at Atlantic City, ?26° at Buffalo, ?12° at Toledo, ?34° at Sault Ste. Marie, ?10° at Duluth, ?2° at Chicago, ?16° at Detroit. Total death toll from cold: 40. *Biggest year...
...their money in paper pounds or accepting new bonds paying only 3½% (TIME, Aug. 15). This example. M. Germain-Martin handsomely declared, gave him courage to offer holders of $3,332,000,000 worth of 7%, 6% and 5% French bonds either their money back or new bonds paying 4?...
...loaded down with his fawning followers. Under him New Orleans has slipped from second to fifth among U. S. ports. Prisons are so overcrowded that last week Governor Allen had to release hundreds of offenders to save money. The gasoline tax has been upped from 2¢ to 6¢. A 4?? tax is imposed on 15¢ cigarets. Last week Senator Long ordered 100 highway police to stop tax-dodgers from smuggling gasoline and cigarets into the State, warned them not to molest liquor 'leggers. Soft drinks, life insurance premiums, electricity and corporate capitalization are also heavily taxed. Enemies of Huey Long...
...Olympic record?157 ft., 2 in. A few minutes later, Noel's record was broken by Henri Laborde of Stanford, with 158:3. John Anderson of the New York Athletic Club smashed Laborde's trial record with 160:3¾. Anderson's last qualifying throw, 162 ft., 4??? in., was an Olympic record that will last till...
...leather case. More extraordinary even than his caps?which are already creating a vogue like the Helen Wills eyeshade? are what Vines has inside his size 10 tennis shoes?a pair of arch preservers. His rackets?he uses 35 a year?are 13½ oz. with a 4??? in. handle. For diversion, he likes to polish or scuttle about in his new Ford coupe. His best friend is one Carey MacPherson, who plays mediocre tennis, owns part of a Pasadena gas station. He is engaged to marry a Miss Verle Low. Vines's father owns nine meat markets in Seattle...