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...Committee heard the remainder of Deal's story: how he swam to a floating gas tank to which three other men were clinging; how they struggled to keep the open spout of the tank above water; how all hands shouted in unison to attract the lookout aboard the tanker Phoebus; how Machinist's Mate Rutan weakened and slipped into the sea and Radioman Copeland held on only to die later, while Deal and Metalsmith Moody S. Erwin were rescued. The Committee heard; but their minds dwelt on those snapping girders-an indication that the mighty Akron had buckled...
...Miniature buildings on the table rock, collapse or remain upright as actual buildings might behave under natural conditions. Skyscrapers of more than 30 or 40 stories are generally flexible enough to resist earthquake oscillations. Buildings of four to 30 stories run greatest risk because they tend to vibrate in unison with quakes. Last week's earthquake proved Professor Jacobsen's thesis. In Long Beach & vicinity mainly low structures were wracked and razed. Skyscrapers stood unharmed...
...shot in the dark. The President-elect had barred the sales tax. Out of much talk evolved a proposal to fall back upon the income tax as the only likely source of new revenue. When the conference broke up near midnight Speaker Garner and Senator Robinson outlined almost in unison the following plan...
...Glittering peeresses who have no legislative seats (even when they are peeresses in their own rights), jammed their places. When members of the House of Commons came pushing and jostling (by ancient ritual) to the bar of the House of Lords, several peeresses happened to raise their lorgnettes in unison, thus made it possible for one naïve correspondent to cable that "peeresses turned and glared...
...building with its surroundings (function, terrain, climate), make plain its structural elements and if possible develop them as ornamentation. He would teach them the feel of materials by having them blast stone, hew timber, dig soil, work in a machine-shop. They would study, sweat, play and brood in unison. They would be called, not ''students'' as in other colleges, but by the fine old medieval guild word, "apprentice." Last week Architect Wright had done something about his school idea...