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...with wreckage. Then its full force struck Puerto Rico at the northeastern tip, moved across the northern part of the island and was gone to blow itself out against the mountains of Haiti. San Juan, the populous capital, was sharply ripped by the storm's 120-m. p. h. vortex. Lesser villages were torn from the hillsides. In all, 217 Puerto Ricans were killed, 2,219 injured, 75,000 left homeless. Next day Governor Beverley flew over the devastated areas, reported that the entire banana crop was destroyed, that coffee and tobacco had suffered a 50% loss, citrus fruits nearly...
...vortex of Revolution last July a commission was appointed to investigate the dictatorship of ousted President Ibanez on the general principle that everything created under it must be bad. Last week the commission reported that Cosach...
While in college Dr. Richards was football manager and it was at that time that he discovered certain phenomena of the wind currents in the Stadium. He found that there is a wind vortex close to the goal posts at either end and the knowledge of this has aided dropkickers in gaining greater accuracy, even against adverse winds...
What happened last week in Detroit was, as all the world knows, just another vortex in the maelstrom that is gradually concentrating U. S. bank control. Whirling daily at a faster rate, there are two main currents in the maelstrom. One is the expansion of single units through mergers and new branches. Of this last week's Detroit merger was an example, as was the Corn Exchange Bank and Trust Co.-National City Bank consolidation (TIME, Sept. 30). The other current is the grouping of separate units through one controlling corporation. Greatest examples of this are the Transamerica Corp...
...working in the same field would have a chance to be in frequent communication with each other, an intellectual atmosphere and intellectual discussions would, thus provided with a basis of common interest and knowledge, tend to develop. Some even of the professedly non-students might be drawn into the vortex by mere proximity...