Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lake, B. C.'s hospital last week, suffering from broken leg and exposure, Prospector Arthur Gammon told how a little black bear had saved his life. Injured by a falling tree, Prospector Gammon had started to crawl to his cabin two miles away, been overtaken by a snow-storm after six days. He inched into a cave, found a bear inside. The bear did not budge. When he resumed his crawl, the bear went with him. One day he fainted, came to to find the bear holding off an encircling pack of coyotes. Still standing guard, the bear scampered...
...something of a record for financial exhibitionism in the past three years. He got his headline tag of "100%" by liquidating loans as fast as he could early in Depression, having more than enough cash and Government bonds to cover all his deposits when the banking storm hit. Later the Nichols index of liquidity climbed to 102% which also got his name in the papers. But Banker Nichols did not really begin to show his stuff until the advent of the New Deal...
...remainder of the program is taken up with Debussy's three symphonic sketches, "La Mer," and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The former is delightful musical description of a light, joyous variety (there is no great storm or torrent as in many other program pieces with similar names). The latter is often considered the greatest of Beethoven's nine symphonies; but let the music speak for itself--it is far more eloquent than mere words...
...gold, much of which has come to the U. S. to build up one huge $10,786,000,000 gold reserve. Ever since Depression hit, such vast sums of migratory capital have charged about the world like tons of drifting cannon balls rolling loose in the hold of a storm-tossed economic ship. Last summer the Department of Commerce estimated that foreigners had $1,200,000,000 deposited in U. S. banks and invested in short term securities, had $2,951,000,000 in U. S. stocks and bonds. Economists have long been alive to the danger...
...toured the West, put her product in 52 stores in 52 cities. Both comely Mrs. McLaughlin and her 11-year-old daughter Barbara Irene are walking advertisements for "Irene Castle Hats." Calling on the trade, Mrs. McLaughlin often carries along a dog from her dog haven, "Orphans of the Storm, Inc." Last year the care of 8,000 canine orphans at this Deerfield, Ill. retreat cost her $16,000, a deficit whose liquidation requires the sale of a great many hats...