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...vandals smashed expensive plate-glass windows in what observers described as a drunken rampage along Dunster St. and Mt. Auburn St. at about...
...hotels were hit just as hard. A huge plate-glass window at the Fontainbleau Hotel collapsed, and water and wind caused as much as $250,000 damage to rooms in the Deauville and Americana hotels. "It was worse than Argonne," said a 72-year-old World War I vet, but incredibly, the most serious injury Cleo appeared to have caused in all of Florida was a broken arm, suffered by a 60-year-old woman guest at the Fontainbleau when a door fell...
...week's end almost all the major steelmakers had followed with boosts that covered one-third of the industry's output. At the same time, industry leader Alcoa joined in price hikes that have raised the cost of aluminum as much as 3½% , and two major plate-glass makers raised prices about 7%. Lately, prices have also risen for lead, chemicals, paper, tires and textiles. The National Association of Purchasing Agents says that there were more price rises in September than in any other month in the past two years...
Sometimes the electronic brain casts a long shadow. A man at the drivers' license bureau in Phoenix read about the checking system on his application and turned tail so fast that he ran right through the license bureau's plate-glass office door...
...days, nobody in Jefferson County (pop. 245,659) had to look hard for diversion. Downtown clubs and suburban roadhouses sported open bars in defiance of Texas' liquor laws. Bookmakers' tote boards were visible through many a plate-glass window; odds were available on everything from Florida horse races to Beaumont high school football games. Madams of the 20 brothels offered special matinee rates for teenagers. The law looked on amiably (though there was a police order ruling the brothels off limits to 14-year-olds and under). Only one gambling arrest was recorded in Beaumont in 35 years...