Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President-elect of IHA is Sir Francis Towle (pronounced Toll), managing director of Gordon Hotels, Ltd. which owns, among others, London's Mayfair, Metropole and Grosvenor. His brother Arthur Edward, also in Manhattan last week, runs the biggest hotel chain outside the U. S., a string of smaller places the length & breadth of the British Isles. On the side he directs the dining-car, restaurant and hotel division of London, Midland & Scottish...
Field work of the Fatigue Laboratory has included research at Boulder Dam, on the problem of curing or preventing heat cramps, as illness which was daily exacting its toll of human life. Previous scientific study had been based upon the premise that all the workers needed was plenty of water. The Fatigue Laboratory's work indicated that, a deficiency of salt caused both sunstroke and heat cramps. A mild amount of salt in the drinking water proved to be of value in preventing the illness, and in extreme cases, intravenous injections of a saline solution were made. Following the work...
Last month Captain Robert E. Carey of the Dollar liner President Cleveland was charged with adding to the death toll in the Morro Castle disaster by his delay and incompetence. Last week the two ship's officers who made the charge were removed from his command. Chances were they would be dismissed by the company, which exonerated Captain Carey on his past record...
Next morning startled Kentuckians saw the ladies roll across the toll bridge over the Tug River at Williamson. "I'm just running around," Mrs. Roosevelt assured them. For a morning's amusement she drove down to see Henry Ford's coal mines at Pond Creek, then ran across into Virginia, lunched at a roadside stand near Norton and from her running board made a little speech thanking the crowd which gathered to gape at her. By nightfall the ladies had crossed through eastern Tennessee and were at Asheville...
...frail and broken woman lay in a remote sanatorium in the French Alps under the shadow of Mt. Blanc. A racking cough had settled in her chest. Pernicious anemia was in her blood. Perhaps long exposure to the deadly element she and her husband had discovered was taking its toll. But Marie Curie's mind was clear and she was ready to die. She had come far since her birth in Poland 66 years ago. In Warsaw her father had been a physics professor, her mother principal of a girls' school. Their daughter Marie had to flee...