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...corporation's subsidiaries out of Oklahoma, confiscate their properties on charges that they sought to make themselves a monopoly. Last week Tri-Utilities, faced with the payment of interest due on $11,197,000 of 5% debentures, and with some $2,000,000 notes falling due Dec. 15, beheld a problem in financing that not even brilliant young Mr. Ohrstrom could solve. The result was the biggest public utility failure (and one of few) in the present Depression, far overshadowing the demise...
TIME was misled by newshawks who beheld Mrs. Coolidge in her beret (see cut). Mrs. Coolidge's black hair, streaked with grey, is still long...
Just before the next dawn a farmer, looking out of his window some ten miles from Ypsilanti, beheld a bright light against the hooded sky. Hurrying across fields to a lonely road he found a car in flames. In the car were the incinerated bodies of Thomas Wheatley, Harry Lore, Vivian Gold, Anna May Harrison. On the running board, fenders, bumpers of the car were splashes of blood. A bloody wrench lay in the road. Officers who removed the bodies after the fire had died found two bullet holes in Lore, discovered the skulls of the other three had been...
...human life, have there been so many sharks as this year off the New Jersey and Long Island coasts. And not for several seasons has swordfishing been so successful in the same waters. *Last week, six miles off Sea Bright, N. J., fishermen Harry Munson and George Swenson beheld what few men have seen -a fight to death between a shark and a swordfish. Usually a shark will vanish at sight of its mortal enemy with the sharp-bladed nose, but this shark "about 25 feet long," was intent on stealing a big bluefish that the men were pulling...
Zenzinov got along well with the northern natives, who thought he was a wonderworker. None of them had ever seen a lamp before. "No one knew how bread was raised. . . . They had never seen milk or butter. . . . Neither the women nor the children had ever beheld a living tree." (Their firewood was flotsam from the Indigirka River.) The natives had plenty of caviar but did not know how to treat it, usually gave it to the dogs...