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Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico hastened to despatch the U. S. S. Grebe with a medical unit. For disease spread fast. One surgeon performed 50 amputations in a few hours. The U. S. Navy loaned the Red Cross three tri-motor Ford planes each to carry 1,500 pounds of medical supplies. Food and water was rushed from every direction, especially from inland valleys of the island which had escaped the storm. A sunken dredge and rushing torrents blocked Santo Domingo harbor; supplies were ferried ashore in ships' boats...
...eliminated. Charles Freshman, Kolster, Brandes, Ware, Freed-Elsemann, Thompson, Bel-Canto, Sleeper, Themiodyne, are no longer names to be reckoned with. The industry has been concentrated into fewer, stronger hands, some of which are pioneer survivors. Old firms still strong include Atwater Kent, Philco, Grigsby-Grunow, Stromberg-Carlson, Crosley, Grebe, Andrea Inc., Gulbransen...
...race around England for the King's Cup last week, air-touring Publisher Van Lear Black of Baltimore chartered a huge Imperial Airways plane as his "flying grandstand." Winner of the race was R. L. Atcherley, flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, with a Gloster-Grebe military fighter. A competitor was Lady Mary Bailey, trans-African adventuress (TIME, March 26, 1928, April...