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...been shown, under the Quebec system, for instance, that the pro rate figures of arrests for drunken driving where there is government liquor control are less than similar totals for this country which is legally completely dry. Certainly advices from visitors to Canada indicate that the authorities across the border are considerably more vigorous in dealing with intoxicated automobilists than are out own gendarmes...
...same futility that has attended all academic discussion of war problems will apparently be the fate of the present optimistic gestures. Italy rattles her sward under the nose of France, who retaliates with ostentatious war games on the Italian border. Germany and Russia too indulge in their share of blustering. From all external appearances, Europe will again be shocked with the news that the cannons are again roaring. The aspect is not a cheerful one, yet it seems inevitable in these times when even disarmament conferences almost...
Regarding NYRBA's finances. . . . Something more than $4,000,000 was poured into an operating airway, 8,903 miles in length, spanning the West Indies, extending down the East Coast of South America, then westward over the Andes to Chile and northward to the Bolivian border: the largest fleet of the largest flying boats in the world were built especially for this service and backed up by a squadron of 22 auxiliary flying ships; a careful organization was developed and scattered through 17 countries to carry the work of the air line forward; most of this...
...dude ranch 30 miles away, or to Mounte Crese ranch 18 miles away. Loneliness soon vanishes in the colony's common purpose. Di versions are plentiful. Fashionable gam bling, dancing, drinking are wide-open. Such roadhouses as the Willows are in easy reach. Calneva Lodge on the border attracts many who play golf and tennis in California, sleep in Nevada. Time passes quickly, enjoyably...
...armed Prussian henchman, General Hans Kundt, the litmus turned red. Trouble was brewing in the southern provinces. President Leguia promptly demoted overambitious army officers, closed universities, arrested student agitators. But the trouble spread, the litmus stayed red. One Luis Sanchez Cerro, Colonel of Sappers at Arequipa near the Chilean border, declared open rebellion fortnight ago. In four days, progressing almost without bloodshed, the revolution forced President Leguia to invalidate his statue, sign his own abdication...