Word: frontierisms
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Many an observer has pointed out that past U. S. depressions were relieved by mass migrations to the frontier, that the present depression is uniquely acute because that safety valve is gone. But there is one last U. S. frontier: Alaska. A few hundred discouraged miners who have turned to farming produce only a small portion of Alaska's food. The rest, $6,000,000 worth per year, is imported. Meantime, U. S. farmers plow under their crops, kill livestock to prevent a surplus. Last January, FERA officials put these facts together, produced their most ambitious rural rehabilitation scheme...
Afraid to trust loose-tongued civilian labor, the French General Staff last week had French and Senegalese soldiers at work completing la patrie's chain of super-secret frontier defense works among the forests of Alsace and the Moselle. Just as the new secrets seemed to be keeping nicely, pairs of Germans in light sport planes began coasting across the frontier, flying low over France's defenses and snapping photographs. When this had happened four times in the week, tempers snapped at the French General Staff and Germany received fair warning that any more peeping planes would...
...half a century, still rides the Orient Express. For every tycoon deposited in Chicago and for every cinemactress brought to Broadway by the New York Central's famed train, the Orient Express has carried its kings, its Kreugers, its peacock Balkan generals and as many spies as frontier guards can be bribed to pass between Europe proper and Asia improper on the musty, rattle-banging train de luxe. There are also German travelers, omnivorous, industrious and good at figuring out. as one did recently, that on the Orient Express substantially the same dinner cost...
Through travelers hand their passports to the French porter, are seldom disturbed by frontier passport control officers except for a quick glance, or occasionally at night a rap on the compartment door and the stab of a flashlight. If suspected of being a spy, the thing to do is to raise a terrific hubbub and demand that the express be held while you telegraph the nearest U. S. Legation which in the Balkans will reply faster than you would think. Usually the express will wait...
...difference-lies in the fact that the Dictator rigidly sets the price of rubles for foreigners, whereas the President merely uses his stabilization fund to keep exchange fluctuation in bounds. Stalin has any Russian caught exporting or importing rubles shot, and rubles are confiscated from tourists at the Russian frontier. Result: Russians mistrust the ruble so much that in Russia it is "worth about...