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...bankers of Berne last week showed just how important they think the Allied successes in Sicily are. They were paying only half as much for German marks as they paid before the Sicilian invasion began. Unlike German bonds, the mark has reacted to Allied victories in only one way-downward. In Berne last week a Reichsmark was worth the equivalent of 1.86 U.S. cents (in 1939, 14 cents...
Venturing slowly out across the lip of the gulch, we plunged downward. Dimly I saw troops hurling great bundles of fagots on to the muck and mud in the bottom of the track, trying to build a bridge for our tanks to cross. Tracers were spitting down toward them...
...bank would be to extend short-term loans to destitute nations. But eventually the bank would be expected to call for some readjustment. One readjustment might be an attempt to revalue such a country's currency in terms of gold and the bancor unit. A revision downward would make it easier for the debtor country to export, more difficult for it to import...
...cannot therefore be imposed from above through incessant recitations and tests, is a cornerstone of its academic liberty. Yet too few teachers at Harvard have had the courage to carry this premise to its logical conclusion of lecturing on a college level; far too many have directed their courses downward to the "typical" student, the one who will not do his reading until the week before the examination. The inevitable result is that many college lectures, assuming nothing, contribute little that cannot better be found in a book. Even where interpretation is emphasized, time devoted to an unnecessary presentation...
...After the Stalingrad defeat, Hitler's personal popularity for the first time spiraled downward with Nazi Party prestige. His promise of victory at Stalingrad was too recent and too wrong for even propaganda-hammered Germans to forget; Germans said that Hitler's appointment of reckless "Party Generals" assured the Stalingrad catastrophe...