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...flimsy sign boards and rooftop water tanks that would become deadly projectiles if a real hurricane hit. It has square miles of densely populated and easily flooded lowlands. Many of its roadways and railroads run just above high water, and networks of tunnels and basements stand ready to gulp a hurricane tide...
...full quart of brandy inside him. He groped unsteadily to his feet, demanded recognition as the new king, fell to the floor and, three minutes later, died. This was the big chance for Willie Jardine, who poured himself a final tumblerful and, like his rival, downed it in one gulp. A moment later, Jardine himself collapsed on the floor. By the following morning, he too was dead...
...Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Bernerd Anderson, 45, has decided to quit "in the next few months." One of the Texas "Democrats for Eisenhower" in top Administration posts (another: Health and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby), Bob Anderson proved a real find as Navy Secretary, quickly won a boost and was for a time rated a likely heir to Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson. Anderson, on leave from his $60,000-a-year job running the 510,000-acre Waggoner ranch and oil properties, has recently been pressed to run for governor of Texas. He has strong support from both Governor...
...world's hungry steel mills gulp away the known supplies of high-grade ore, the Marmora operation may point the way to development of other well-located deposits of low-grade...
...want a women's corps right away and I don't want any excuses!' " The bill creating the WAAC was passed by Congressmen May 14, 1942, over anguished opposition (cried a Representative: "Think of the humiliation! What has become of the manhood of America?"). Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, a Houston publisher, was sworn in as WAAC director. Notes the book: "Her wide-brimmed hat proved unreasonably difficult to photograph...