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...that they had ratified the liquor and child labor amendments. Followed a downpour of reports concerning almost everything from the progress of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine to the results of a survey of the cotton velvet and velveteen industry. These were succeeded by a torrent of communications from such organizations as the Rotary Club of Indianola, Iowa (for increased monetization of silver and extension of agricultural markets by use of War Debts), the Alaska Native Brotherhood (protesting relief discrimination), the Bakers' Association of Puerto Rico (praying for the non-application of the flour processing...
...TIME, Dec. 5, 1932). The syndicate was behind on gambling taxes due the state one day last week, but insisted that they would open the Palais for the season next evening. Just after noon flames burst from the restaurant, the theatre, the baccarat room and swept in a crackling torrent through the whole Palais...
...fingers that are dexterous beyond compare and with mind that plans, see the completed result in his imagination. He models and commands the method, carries out the procedure, puts the parts into perfect apposition, but God knits the scar. "He sews severed arteries that they may carry their crimson torrent without leak and without hindrance. The delicate nerve must be spliced to give the return of welcome sensation to palsied arm. He sews the viscera so truly that they become watertight. He mends the splintered bone and repairs the lacerated flesh while holding to the skirts of the frightened spirit...
...business district, a 17tth typhoon approached to within 40 mi. of the city, then turned northwest. Toward nightfall, the typhoon changed its direction, aimed for Shanghai. Blowing with cyclonic force, it piled up mountainous seas at the mouths of the Yangtze and Whangpoo Rivers, sent a four-foot torrent flowing through the heart of Shanghai. The waters islanded the National City and Chase National Banks and most of the big downtown hotels. Having done several millions of dollars worth of damage, the 17th typhoon wandered northward after midnight...
...clock the torrent began to dr,am away. By afternoon it was quiet. Because of the warnings flashed out by Operator Nettie Driscoll and by Hugh Paine, caretaker of the dam, thousands of slumbering Denverites had escaped death. Only two were killed, five reported missing. Property damage exceeded $1,000,000, would have been greater but for the city ordinance that requires all Denver houses to be built of stone, brick, tile or concrete...