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...Most famed "anti-seismic" building is the Imperial Hotel at Tokyo, the creation of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, which successfully withstood the 1923 quake. Its foundations are insloping, not vertical...
...Italian Cabinet as the day on which to announce its appropriation toward rebuilding the houses demolished fortnight ago when temblors cracked Italy's ankle from Naples to Bari (TIME, Aug. 4). One hundred million lire ($5,260,000) was set aside for the erection of several hundred "anti-seismic"* houses in the devastated region, for destroying uninhabitable dwellings, for shoring up those which are salvageable...
...verily believe that our small band of relief workers was spared so that we could rescue the 9,000 helpless Armenian orphans in Leninakan. The terrific seismic forces ceased temporarily, and we succeeded in reaching the Near East Relief orphanages...
...Atlantis* is returning. ... As the result of recent seismic disturbances in the Pacific [Japan, Santa Barbara], a new plateau is protruding upwards from the bowels of the earth on the opposite side of the globe. . . . Without striking a blow, France will have another province, New Gascony...
...outskirts of Tokyo-a city slowly rising from the ruins wrought by the seismic cataclysm of 1923 (TIME, Sept. 10, 1923, et seq.)-smoke burst into fire in a factory. Greedy, licking flames were fanned by a devil's wind and, within a day, a space of one square mile extending into the city lay black, scorching, smoking. More than 1,700 houses had been destroyed, nearly 10,000 people made homeless. Nobody was reported dead, but ten people were listed as missing, more than 100 injured and 50 children, separated during the fire from their parents, began...