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...Published by the Associated Press last week was the historic, closely guarded letter which Germany's President Hindenburg wrote President Hoover the day the debt holiday plan was announced in June. Excerpts: "The dire distress of the German people which is now at its highest peak compels me to turn to you. . . . Every possibility of improving the situation by internal measures, without relief from the outside world, has been exhausted. The economic crisis strikes the German people who have been robbed of their reserves through the consequences of the War, with especial vehemence. . . . The ability, the will to work...
...Ottawa local newsdealers took an alarmist view, said that the new tariff on U. S. periodicals would force them to raise prices so much as to decrease their sales drastically. They predicted "dire unemployment" in newsdealer ranks, for readable Canadian magazines...
Segments of the green snake came from Mitchel Field, N. Y., from Kelly Field and Fort Crockett in Texas, from Crissy and Rockwell Fields in California, from all over the country. When the armada assembled at Wright and Fairfield Fields in Dayton, it became a dire aerial weapon capable of firing 2,000,000 shots a minute or loosing 100,000 Ib. of bombs. Its title: The First Provisional Air Division...
Nothing is less susceptible to scrutiny than reputation. Put to the test, the savoir faire, savoir dire of the hardiest drollo in our midst would be hard put to it to approach this standard of imperfection. We can't attempt to be Casanovas without certain detection. And once let the folk of the watering-places get wind of our being neither more nor less than pretty average fellows whose urges are no more picaresque than the norm, we sink in the eyes of the world...
...owner of a pipe line must buy all oil offered, whereas for shipment by rail a company needs buy only what it wishes. Perhaps an additional reason was the rumor that oil in this prodigious new field is coming in at increasingly high temperatures. To oilmen, that is a dire warning of water's approach, boom...