Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief, "All the King's Men" is a play, excellently presented, which while it does not make its audience reach for the handkerchief to wipe away tears either of sympathy or of laughter, nevertheless supplies just enough of both comedy and charm to keep each fresh, and afford at the same time a very pleasant evening's entertainment...
Puny seem man's efforts at law enforcement when Nature sweeps into the job. The swollen rivers of south Georgia last week, backing up through impenetrable swamps, floated off hundreds of hidden stills and moonshining camps long out of reach of U.S. agents. It was one of the biggest "dry raids" in the State, for the flood did in a few days the work of three times the number of Federal officers now on duty in that region. Literary 'leggers dolefully quoted G. K. Chesterton's Flying...
...Hurricanes (typhoons sea cyclones) reach 150 m. p. h., tornadoes (land cyclones) 300 m. p. h. Conservative calculations estimate the force of a hurricane at more than 100 billion horsepower. The 1926 Miami hurricane is calculated to have had enough power to run every dynamo, motor and steam engine in the world for 20 years...
...discarding the slow mule-pack transportation and using cows through the swift currents of the Yellow stone River. In 1915 he decided China needed railroads, so he went there, got the concessions, built the roads. During the War he bored a hole through the mountains of Washington to reach the spruce forests and provide building material for airplanes. He has just finished a huge dam in Vermont...
...brother Attilio Giannini chairman of its board) and Elisha Walker, leader of Blair & Co. With the acquisition of Blair & Co., Mr. Giannini has given his Bank of America a potent investment banking organization that will secure him an entrance into many an investment syndicate that Bancamerica does not reach. Sensational has been Blair & Co.'s success in recent years, its oil operations having culminated in the organization of the recently formed Petroleum Corp., $100,000,000 oil investment trust (TIME, Feb. 4). Able Elisha Walker, who will become president of Bancamerica and chairman of the executive committee of Bank...