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...penthouses to replace the stuffy old one room quarters they have occupied during the long hard summer when listeners stay home only for the baseball broadcasts. From October on the living rooms of the land are filled with floods of expensive music and a hundred expensive voices that engulf the fireside from morning until night...
Farther south the Yangtze River subsided somewhat, had not yet made good its threat to engulf "the Chicago of China," teeming Hankow...
...realities. Before them is the acid test of dictatorship: the question of what to do when a state which has been raised upon the personality of one man finds that he is gone. If history means anything, the autocracy has one of two fates; a howling chaos may engulf the country, in which men of definite ambitions and questionable talents fight for the chair of government, or else, when a so-called successes has been named to carry on the work, the dictatorship disintegrates with the body of its founder...
...portions of this earth and returned with scenes of nature--clouds, rocks, and sea--which are rivalled only by Eisenstch. Clouds, rocks, and sea--but mostly sea, calm, seemingly docile but cunning, the willing food-source for the Man of Aran--or roaring, raging, scaling cliffs, reaching out to engulf the whole of that small island--and finally, sea triumphant, mockingly destroying the puny efforts of man to thwart...
Facts & figures on the nation's business made exciting reading last week. Because for the corresponding week a year ago the bank moratorium was about to engulf the U. S. and most trade teetered close to a standstill, the weekly indices showed enormous gains. But even discounting that factor, anyone with half an eye could see that the usual spring rise was accelerating at more than a seasonal pace. Car loadings were 26.6% above last year, 5.4% above the week before and, for the first time, topped the corresponding week of 1932. Electric power output was 16.5% above...