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...abroad without credit, a nation must have goods or gold to offer. In 1916 the Reichsbank alone had a gold reserve of 2,500,000,000 marks. Today highest estimate of published and secret gold reserves is one-half billion marks...
...Germany produced 179 million tons of coal. Germany may produce as much this year as in 1938-186 million tons, highest production since 1913-but coal is Germany's largest single export commodity, and what is left at home is mostly commandeered for industrial uses for the manufacture of synthetic gasoline and rubber. Last week Berlin was shivering in a desperate fuel shortage...
...outbreak of the American Revolution he was a planter in Virginia and in December, 1775, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the newly-organized naval service. The highest rank he ever obtained in the U. S. Navy was that of captain...
...Highest earnings were reported by Bank of America, $17,734,076, including security profits, highest since the bank's organization in November 1930, and 21.7% above 1938. From this, Bank of America sent $8,143,076 to surplus, earmarked $5,355,834 of it for a complete write-off of some of its foreign credits...
...recall the background of that historic tangle with Stalin, Ben Gitlow, highest placed and most articulate U. S. Communist yet to spill the beans, last week published a 611-page confession of his Party life. It is a lively and extraordinary history. Unlike most ex-Communists, Author Gitlow does not try to prove that his brand of Communism was right, that of the Stalinites wrong. Given Marx and Lenin, concludes Author Gitlow, Stalinism is inevitable; Fascism also. As for his own role in the Party, Author Gitlow confesses he was no better than the next one -though naturally he credits...