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...destroyed, its motor roared. Dodging neatly between sampans, the Colonel put on speed. "As our ship took off," he related, "the people realized that no relief had arrived for them and their violent hopes sank. " Back in Nanking, the Colonel took counsel, announced that he would attempt no more succor flights. "I am convinced," said he, "that the only way to place doctors in the flooded towns would be to send them with a military escort." Later Col onel & Mrs. Lindbergh said they would make further "survey flights," would carry a League of Nations observer over China's flooded...
Invention had promised succor for just such a disaster. In the U. S. Lieut. Charles Bowers Momsen and in England R. H. Davis have each invented a "lung" for submarine escape. The essential parts of both devices are a small tank of compressed oxygen, an inflated bag and a mouthpiece. Connecting mouthpiece and tank is a stout tube. Thus a man escaping from a sunken submarine can breathe the minutes required for him to bob to the surface and rescue. That is, if he can get out of his deep, steel prison. Since the Momsen "lung" was invented there...
...cast about to find someone to enlighten him on the subject, but to no avail. Days past and no one appeared to dissipate the abysmal ignorance of the Vagabond. At last, after weeks of anxious waiting, succor arrived. Today at ten o'clock he will go to Emerson H there to hear Professor Sarton lecture on Pasteur. The Vagabond doesn't know much about Pasteur, but he has a vague and tenuous idea that he was a doctor, or a scientist or a medical man of some ability. He also had something to do with pasteurized milk, which the Vagabond...
...Labor camp strategists thought that Laborite Scullin would meet the Nationalist challenge by attempting to force a dissolution of both House and Senate. If he succeeds, they predicted, if he goes to the country in a general election promising the unemployed to succor them by inflation, jobless votes may enable...
This subject (since the American Red Cross had refused succor [TIME, Dec. 10, 1928], and since the U. S. now has its own drought-hunger problems) has become taboo in despatches. Nevertheless 8,000,000 Chinese have starved to death in the present Great Famine (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928 et seq.) and 1,000,000 more soon will starve to death, the China Famine Relief (Manhattan) estimates...