Pleasure at New Hospital at Medical College of Virginia
Richmond reports progress on the new Medical College of Virginia hospital with advanced safety features. Air conditioning, sunlit rooms, mercury switches, sterilized gear, and a locked ward system aim to prevent infections and explosions. Visiting doctors and nurses operate under strict controls in a hospital within a hospital setting.
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Medical College Institution
Richmond
Ickness
Hospital of Medical College of Virginia
Evergy
Tent Big Enough For a Football Field Protects Work On Big Dam
ENUMCLAW Wash March 13 A tent covering 196 by 328 feet rises across the White River chasm to shield Mud Mountain dam works. The $35 000 canvas and rigging will bear 640 000 pounds and support 22 hoists as a flood control project damcosting about 7 million aims to 400 feet high and 800 feet long.
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Enumclaw
Wash
White River
M. L. McHugh
Tile Manufacturing Company
Fresh Soaking Hits California as Rain Records Fall
Los Angeles reports back to back storms setting 51 year rainfall records. Total seasonal precipitation through March 13, 1940, reaches 26.31 inches surpassing past marks while 1883-84 saw 38.18 inches. Storm spans from Santa Barbara to Imperial Valley with cloudbursts and thunder. Forecast calls for more rain through tomorrow.
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Los Angeles
California
Santa Barbara
Imperial Valley
Four Killed In Mine Explosion In Renowned PA Coal Mine
Four men died in an early explosion at Monroe Coal Company's mine in Revloc Pennsylvania near Johnstown. Rescue crews recovered the bodies after about four hours. State Mine Inspector William Lamont linked the blast to gas buildup.
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Revloc
Monroe Coal Company
Pennsylvania
Johnstown
William Lamont
Plan Great Music Fete in Charlottesville on April 8
A music festival unites nearly 200 singers from the University of Virginia Washington and Lee Hollins and Madison glee clubs for a joint program in Cabella Hall. The event features Gounod Gallia in four sections directed by Rog ers Pratt Warner Goodale Schaffer and the UVA conductor, with Albert Cocke coordinating arrangements.
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Charlottesville
University of Virginia
Washington and Lee University Hollins College
Madison College
Cabella Hall
Charles Francois Gounod
Gallia
Harry Rogers Pratt
Washington and Lee
John V. Warner
Hollins
Roger Goodale
Madison
Edna Schaffer
Pratt
Albert Cocke
University of Virginia Glee Club
Arthur Pickenscher
School of Fine Arts
Virginia
Mussolini in field as Italy faces demands to Saturday
Italian premier Mussolini has gone to the front and given his generals until Saturday to act. Greek spokesman claims he ordered fierce attacks on the central front near Tepeleni, repulsed after four bloody days of fighting. A German destroyer was reportedly torpedoed by a British plane in the Skagerrak, and Hitler hailed Austria's union with Germany with speeches promising a greater Reich and final victory.
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Mussolini
Ile
Central Front
Tepeleni
Way Sea
Skagerrak
Baltic
North Seas
Hitler
Austria
The
Reich
Credic
Linz
Treasury reports March receipts exceed expenditures
Treasury data for March 11 show receipts 24 928 984 16 dollars and expenditures 23 966 895 44 dollars. Gross debt stands at 46 276 924 102 05 dollars, an increase of 2 516 966 98 from the prior day.
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Washington
the Treasury
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