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"It was not a very intense or violent earthquake, as earthquakes go. It was not as intense, for instance, as the Naples earthquake [TIME, Aug. 4]. The most violent quake in recent history happened a year ago last November when 13 transatlantic cables were destroyed."
Quick to get facts, Northfield's President Elliott Speer was the first to ascertain that the estate had been grossly over-estimated in popular notion, that it would come to scarcely more than $30,000,000 and that the residue, to be divided on a percentage basis, might not be...
Hundreds of miles from the snows of Bardonecchia, other Italian soldiers died fighting in the Sahara. In Libya for over a year Italian troops have been waging private war against revolting Senussi tribesmen. Last stronghold of the Senussi is the Oases of Kufra, 350 miles across the open desert from...
"Germany's credit is damaged if one cables to the world that the so-called Hitler elections threatened Germany with civil war; if representatives of municipalities continue to talk about the prolongation of city loans; if one knows the finances of one's own country so little that...
Quite often the tube must be dropped 2,000 to 3,000 fathoms in order to reach the bottom. Because of the slow accumulation of sediment in midocean this tiny core of mud may represent thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years. Scientific interest lies in measuring the thickness...