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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week a State Department official estimated that the royal visit would cost the U. S. Treasury about $15,000 in direct expenses (train fares, state dinner, etc...
...Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., which is running the Rochester experiment, normally buys food direct from farmers, cooperatives, etc., and distributes it to the needy through 22,647 outlets in charge of local and State relief agencies. Many are inefficient, careless, hard to deal with, and FSCC is far from satisfied with its own system. So are retailers, who complain that the farm-to-stomach route cuts them out of much business...
...some 60 illuminated books and manuscripts, opulent and glowing psalters, gospels, books of hours. There were a series of Rembrandt etchings, some prints showing the development of the mezzotint, many a print and drawing by the great masters. There were letters and manuscripts galore-Milton, Cromwell, Swift, Dickens, Kipling, etc...
...cotton, coffee and cocoa. Between debtor nations the system of subsidized barter might have worked satisfactorily enough, but the Nazis themselves were slow to deliver finished goods in return for foodstuffs and raw materials, and they frequently demoralized world markets for their suppliers by reselling coffee, tobacco, cotton, etc., at knock-down prices in order to get needed foreign exchange...
...with the unemployed now at work the class as a whole has gained. The farmers (approximately 21% of the population) receive about what they were getting per capita in 1927. Hence it can be argued that Naziism has a mass base, even though forced contributions (party dues, winter relief, etc.) subtract considerably from workers' incomes. The decline in quality is most noticeable in upper and middle class goods; working class goods are maintained in comparative quality and abundance. The German lower class diet, however, has always been heavily weighted with potatoes, cabbage and bread, and in consequence working class...