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Early Sunday morning Theodore Joslin, Hoover secretary, got a telephone call in Washington ordering him immediately to the camp. A White House car sped him to the Rapidan where the President handed him another statement for the Press. He raced back to the Capital, started up the well-oiled White House mimeographs, summoned newsmen...
...amplify his objections he called a camp stenographer and dictated a 2,500-word letter to Herbert Samuel Crocker, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, ardent advocate of a big public works program.* A courier sped the letter to Washington where Secretary of the Treasury Mills checked it over for fiscal facts and figures. Then it was mimeographed and passed out to newsmen at the White House...
...Taking off from Newark Airport late at night, Pilot Reichers roared to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, in 6 hr. 19 min. As he taxied up the field, the plane's tail skid threw a rock through the fuselage, injuring the stabilizer controls. Quickly repairing the damage, he sped off for Paris via Dublin. When finally forced down by a cracked wing and fuel shortage, Pilot Reichers was within 150 mi. of his scheduled stop, 51 mi. from land...
Specifically Senator Johnson excoriated the scramble of U. S. bond houses for South American issues, the "bribing" of a Peruvian President's son to make a loan, the restoration of the Barco oil concession to the Mellon interests by Colombia while the State Department sped up a National City Bank loan (TIME, Jan. 25). He showed statistically how U. S. private loans to 16 European nations with a par value of $1,667,562,000 had depreciated 43% to $925,559,000, how $1,600,000,000 invested in South American securities had shrunk to a cash value...
...Port of New York Authority, which operates the tunnel in addition to four interstate bridges, had trained its tunnel crew for just such an emergency. Red lights flashed. All traffic in the westbound tube was merged in one lane. Down the other in the opposite direction sped a wreck truck from the New Jersey entrance. Because all motor lights must be extinguished before entering the well-lit tunnel, the wrecking crew was not blinded by the glare of traffic. Quickly the smashed coupé was dragged out. Normal traffic was resumed in 20 minutes...