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...miles south of Scotland Light . . . SOS. SOS, Di-di-di-da-da-da-di-di-di. . . . Can't hold out much longer. . . ." Blind, almost knocked out by the bitter smoke. "Sparks" Rogers and Alagna stumbled out of the wireless room. By that time the Morro Castle was an inferno from stem to stern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Inferno Afloat | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

...patriotic young admirer took an oath not to shave until Puerto Rico was independent. As the professor grew weaker, he was moved to a cot in the reading room of the City Hall, facing the square. Too weak to speak, he read by the hour in Dante's Inferno. As the clock struck six one morning, the hour that ended his fast, Pereda sat up, crossed himself, bowed his head in silent prayer, then swallowed two teaspoonfuls of grapefruit juice. He was carried out of the reading room to an ambulance around which a silent crowd was waiting. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Rocking-Chair Patriot | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...monorail. By clenching a peg between his teeth, the '"front" man kept in place a rectangular face-shield. Above the din the carrier truck screeched on the overhead rail as the ladle was trundled up to the furnace. The door swung open to a blinding glare from the inferno inside. The ladle went in. came out full to the brim with a dazzling cargo which dripped down the sides in streamers and sheets. These were trimmed off by a furnaceman with a long hook as the ladlemen walked the dipper over to the mold, popped it through a door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pouring Day | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...YOUNG'S INFERNO-Delphic Studios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: First & Last | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...sudden West Indian hurricane and tidal wave smote the south shore of Santo Domingo, drove the U. S. S. Memphis, 14,500-ton cruiser anchored in the harbor, up on the rocks where she remains to this day. Live steam from broken pipes made below-decks an inferno. Last week at the White House President Hoover conferred the Navy's Medal of Honor upon Commander Claud Ashton Jones, the Memphis' senior engineer, for his heroism 16 years ago in evacuating the injured from her engine room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ted for Ted | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

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