Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Mrs. Fusco, who had a headache as result of the incident: "Screams are not unusual in our department. But the girl had good lungs-fine lungs, in fact-and she kept screaming so loud that they must have thought it was something different, and come running...
...take away that trade. Hearst started the tabloid Mirror in answer, but he was really competing with himself. That the American outlived the World by six years may have been some satisfaction, however expensive, but Mr. Hearst's deepest publishing sensibilities must have been involved by the thought of his cheap Mirror outliving the pride of his glorious youth...
Meanwhile last week onetime AAAdministrator Davis, who once served as Montana's Commissioner of Agriculture & Labor, was glooming in Glacier National Park at a meeting of the Montana Bankers Association. He confessed that although on leaving AAA for the Federal Reserve Board he thought he was "sailing from a storm-tossed sea into a comparatively smooth and protected harbor." now, after a year, he was not so sure. Said he: "If another crisis finds the American banking system disorganized and ineffective, the American citizenry . . . may . . . seize a short cut. . . . Certainly public opinion at such a time will have scant...
...their sewers few city dwellers give a second thought, so basic and taken-for-granted is sewage disposal in urban life. New York City's sewers spout 1,107,000,000 gallons every 24 hours. Chicago's daily 800,000,000 gallons would make a 100-acre lake 40 ft. deep. There is a mile of sewers for every 1,000 persons in the U. S. Even a half-hour suspension of sewage disposal might cripple city existence, but who cares...
...According to his biographer, Sarah Gertrude Millin, Rhodes thought there were still only...