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Ambulances brought doctors and rescue workers from a dozen towns. Priests gave absolution and surgeons operated in the middle of the streets. One woman was dug from a rock pile that had been a house. "There were eight of us, drinking coffee," said she, and died. Others wandered about all night, calling. That night villagers miles away could still see the benzol plant flaming like a candle to the dead...
Life insurance companies were rescuing the Iowa farmer from beneath his debt pile not because of charity or sentiment but because of hard economic necessity. All the companies asked was that the farmer stick by his land and pay something for the sake of appearances. Their concessions to him were widely regarded as the first major break on the front of private debts-a crumbling of moral obligations-to-pay which creditors have been stoutly maintaining through three hard years. Where the insurance companies led other big financial concerns were expected to follow. With most of them...
...Frida Vodegel, who helps her husband run a dachshund kennel in North Hackensack, N. J., did not notice a pile of fresh meat, tied in neat little rolls, lying just inside their fence one morning last week. But the 15 pure-bred dachshunds which she let out for an airing soon scented it. Scurrying on their stubby, crooked legs, they tumbled and fought in their eagerness to snap up the juicy morsels...
...public opinion has forced the government to maintain an uncompromising stand on questions of international economic relations such as the gold standard, war debts tariffs Uncertain as to the action or inaction of the government in the future, business men have no will to spend, and funds continue to pile up in the money markets of the country. Enterprise is paralyzed; recovery is still far distant...
From the first period it was inevitable that the Crimson, fortified by a new scoring punch, would pile up a big total. Not only was the Crimson play distinguished by an air-tight defense, but Baldwin-Putnam scoring combination was working with great effectiveness, and Pruyn's solo dashes that continually split the Bruin defense-zone gave the Crimson an evident superiority...