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From the first, last week, there was no doubt of the Bonnet Lottery's smashing success. Long before dawn impatient queues formed all over France in front of banks, post offices, tax-collection bureaus, tobacco shops. Doors opened at 9 a. m., Frenchmen shoved and fought to buy. By 9:30 every ticket in the first batch of 2,000,000 was sold and speculators were reselling them to disappointed latecomers at a 20% premium. Drawings to determine winners in the first batch will be held on Armistice Day in Paris' lofty, crescent-shaped Palais du Trocadero facing...
...Fascism into the saddle!" The famed "Dollfuss Front" seemed to be breaking up like the Yukon in April. At this juncture the vest-pocket Chancellor went to Church last week and prayed some more. The Ballhausplatz was jammed with cars all night. Lights blazed in the Chancellery windows till dawn. At 4 a. m. reporters and politicians learned Heaven's latest advice to Engelbert Dollfuss...
Only the Meiji would know. Firm in this conviction a spruce file of puzzled Japanese Army officers rode out from Tokyo one dawn last week to a pungent park of pine and camphor trees. They crossed a gurgling brook, entered a spotlessly clean quadrangle and faced with awe the Meiji Shrine, an unpainted wooden building, austere, impressive and, to Japanese, sublime...
...windless night last week when the temperature hovered near freezing, an airplane skimmed back & forth, back & forth across a lowland field in eastern Wisconsin. From midnight until 5 a. m. the plane continued its lonely patrol at loo ft. altitude, barely missing the tamarack trees bordering the field. At dawn it flew away, to return another chill, cloudless night...
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...