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Against fire, flood and floating ice; against rain, wind, tidal waves and meteorites; against explosions, collisions, sabotage, strikes, war, anarchy, Acts of God and complete collapse, the Port of New York Authority last week insured its vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River and its nearly completed bridge over the same stream. The $55,000,000 policy, the largest of its kind ever taken out in New York State, was split among 30 companies. As unusual as the size was the rate: 16? per $100. On most transportational structures, premiums range between...
...Harvard College." He came to a description of the pleasant town of Cambridge in the days when John Adams was president, and Harvard men still knew Greek and Latin. He read of a quiet country town, of meadows that stretched away from the confines of the Yard, of tidal marshes bordering the Charles and of the elms that made Massachusetts Avenue a shady, restful country lane. Well--, the Vagabond realizes that the world must change, and he supposes that twentieth century traffic on the Avenue, gasoline fumes, and the Boston subway really represent progress. But he still holds firm...
Then the earth wobbled; stone buildings fell apart; wooden ones crumpled: Earthquake. A tidal wave tore over the sea wall, sucked the low-lying shore buildings into its wash. Fire broke out, swept over the debris, for scarcely one building remained erect in Napier. News of the disaster spread fast. Wellington rushed doctors, nurses, medical supplies and food by train. By sea New Zealand's two cruisers Dunedin and Diomede sped to help...
...awakened at 1:10 a. m. one night last week to find the world crashing about their heads. Straight across the country's "ankle," from Naples on the west to Foggia and Bari on the east, the earth heaved in the most terrible disaster since a quake plus a tidal wave snuffed out the lives of 77,000 Sicilians and Calabrians at Messina in 1908. More than 3,500 were reported killed last week, and how many thousands were injured no man knew. For four days after the quake the earth that had leaped in convulsion quivered with minor earthquakes...
...President Hoover last week motored around the tidal basin in Washington's Potomac Park, admired, along with thousands of ordinary citizens, the first pinkish-white bloom of the famed Japanese cherry trees which 'Mrs. William Howard Taft. when her husband was in the White House, received as a present from the Mikado and presented to the nation...