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...World Conference, which grew out of last year's Reparations meeting at Lausanne. President Hoover, accepting the League's invitation to attend, had despatched to Geneva Edmund Ezra Day of the Rockefeller Foundation and John Henry Williams, Harvard professor of economics, as U. S. delegates to help draft agenda. London was picked as the meeting place and Ramsay MacDonald, Britain's Prime Minister, consented to serve as chairman. Still unsettled was the opening date...
...southwestern U. S. grew suddenly, hellishly luminescent, just before dawn one day last week. A meteor had passed with the howling roar and ripping draft of a monster express train. The pilots of two mail planes were aloft close enough to the phenomenon to bring precious new information down to scientists...
...insulation were receiving orders for insulation of brewery vats. General Motors announced that the Frigidaire plants at Dayton had jumped from three-to six-day-a-week production, had in the last month spent $1,100,000 for new plant equipment. Reason: daily production of 300 units for cooling draft beer and new home refrigerators with space for a full case of beer...
British Plan. In its 10,000 words the British Plan, submitted in the form of a draft treaty of 96 articles, proposes: ¶To establish parity in home effectives (soldiers under arms) among France, Germany, Italy and Poland on the basis of 200,000 soldiers each. This would mean doubling the present German Army, cutting down the others. As Colonial powers, France and Italy would have in addition respectively 200,000 and 50,000 "Colonial troops." Russia, as the world's largest country, would have under the British Plan 500,000 troops, representing a cut of 62,000 below...
...berth by U. S. publishers and U. S. critics, but his European reputation is nothing to sneeze at. In bringing out the first U. S. edition of Pound's magnum opus alert Publisher Farrar shows that he has heard a thing or two. On the jacket of A Draft of XXX Cantos he quotes...