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...much scandal-a good deal of it true-that they kept a loaded shotgun in their office to discourage reader complaints. As the Post grew in power and prosperity, its proprietors branched into other fields; the Post became the first and last U.S. daily ever to own a circus (Sells-Floto), run a burlesque house and sell coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Deal in Denver | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...fence. The city's milk supply was sharply reduced while suburbanites subsisted on canned goods. Lifelines had to bo stretched on Michigan Avenue. One snow-blinded man was blown to death under a bus before the Drake Hotel. Nine other deaths were somehow attributed to the storm. The Sells-Floto Circus came to town from its winter headquarters at Peru. Ind., at the height of the blizzard. In the New York Central yards, 200 men tussled with half-crazed lions, tigers, monkeys, elephants, camels. Menagerie fatalities: two monkeys, two cockatoos, a springbok. Hearses never reached cemeteries. Big employers like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Spring Storm | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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