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After this darkness will come the dawn. World trade will revive, under an Air Dictatorship, but national government will remain a thing of the past. Basic English (invented in 1922 by C. K. Ogden) will be the lingua franca of the world. Local coinage will be replaced by the "air-dollar"-valued at one cubic metre weighing ten kilograms and traveling 200 kilometres at 100 km.p.h. By 1965 Wells reaches the bottom of his stocking, triumphantly extracts the Modern World-State as a going concern...
...height of the corn as he drove in the gate, said it had grown considerably during his absence. Like his corn, his Recovery Program was last week rapidly approaching full growth. He had signed the oil, steel and lumber codes, thereby bringing three of the nation's largest basic industries under the Blue Eagle in a single week. He was not surprised to hear that Administrator Johnson hoped to round out the Herculean task of setting U.S. industry on its feet by mid-November. With the cotton, oil, steel and lumber codes completed and the coal and automobile codes...
...Riccione's Grand Hotel the two statesmen issued a communiqué from which it was clear that Chancellor Dollfuss agreed to Il Duce's plans for an Italo-Austrian-Hungarian bloc in return for Italian support of his regime. "Austrian independence" was laid down as a "basic principle" by Chancellor Dollfuss, according to the communiqué and both statesmen "perceived that there exists between them a common identity of ideas regarding the problems examined...
Under Chief Thorp the bureau will become more of a Home Guard than a Foreign Legion. President Roosevelt's new instructions called not for quick export orders but for "emphasis on basic research applying particularly to problems such as the estimating of production and consumption, the growth of productive capacity, the expansion of industry in terms of equipment, markets and employment, machinery depreciation and obsolescence, the future of American foreign trade and a wide range of similar topics." Rather than rustling up export orders, Dr. Thorp's efforts were designed to give ''a better sense...
...colleges now require at least graduation from a standard high school (reliable regular medical schools require a college degree as minimum), and four years study of osteopathy. The osteopathic curriculum includes a working knowledge of anatomy, physiology, chemistry, biology, embryology, bacteriology, pathology, surgery, dietetics, hygiene. For study of these basic sciences standard medical texts are used. But in the study of diagnosis and treatment osteopaths have their own special texts...