Word: typhoonous
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...week, their work done, the U. S. members of the Joint Investigating Committee were en route back to Washington where their Philippine colleagues will join them presently to prepare a report which President Roosevelt should receive by next January. Meanwhile, in Manila last week, a few days before a typhoon caused an estimated $4,000,000 worth of damage on nearby islands, Shadow Boxer Quezon stepped through two characteristically fast rounds against his own plan for advancing the date of independence...
...adventures of three beachcombers in a stolen schooner never bore up very well under literary scrutiny. But in the kindlier glow of cinema Technicolor, Ebb Tide's whoppers become leisurely implausibilities, and the story's calm unreality is disturbed only by a thumpingly real and remarkably photogenic typhoon...
...busiest in the world, is always alive with yachts, junks, ferries, sampans, freighters, liners, men-of-war. Last week it was more than usually jampacked with shipping taking refuge from Shanghai's war 1,000 miles to the north. Suddenly in from the China Sea blasted the worst typhoon in ten years. So furious was the wind that observatory instruments, capable of registering up to 125 m.p.h., broke down...
Though the typhoon had spent itself after six hours there was left behind a trail of fires and cholera. At week's end, British officials were still trying to assess casualties and damages, despondently gave out that at least 600 lives had been lost, that the typhoon had cost about 1,000,000 Hong Kong dollars...
...would continue to arrive on schedule. But exports to China were way off, since Shanghai normally handles more than 50% of China's foreign trade. Fruits and groceries consigned there were unloaded from ships in San Francisco, other cargoes at Hong Kong and Singapore, until docks groaned. A typhoon, described as the worst in ten years, caused further losses to shippers by wrecking the Hong Kong water front last week, sinking some 20 ships in the harbor and ruining great piles of exposed goods (see p. 18). No lumber, a prime Pacific Coast export, was moving from...