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...This war, if precipitated, would probably see England, France, and Italy lined up with the United States in pro-Russian sentiment, while Germany and Austria in all likelihood would favor Japan. This, of course, is largely a matter of conjecture...
...With no likelihood that Mexico City would welcome new performers to retake the picture, most of the Viva Villa aim so far completed was burned in an airplane crash near El Paso...
When the year's fatalities in aviation are reckoned up it will be found that two of the deadliest crashes of 1933 obliterated 15 persons who, in all likelihood, had never been in an airplane in their lives. Last spring a transport plane carrying a pilot and two passengers into Oakland, Calif. crashed into a suburban cottage, set it afire, burned ten groundlings to death (TIME, April 3). Last week Lieut. George R. Johnson, an aerial photographer whose discoveries in the high Andes of Peru were world famed, took off from Red Bank, N. J. with an observer...
...turnover of goods which alone means prosperity for farmers or for anybody else. From the specific standpoint of the farmer, the velocity of money means the number of times an average dollar bill passes through his hands in a month or in a year; and since there is little likelihood that this figure can be raised for him, the only thing to do is to increase the income which he gets when he gets...
...another 1914 crisis has done its share in adding to the scares and apprehensions which the economic world trembles over, but while statesmen issue notes in stirring phrases the fortunate truth is that money and credit are not as abundant as they were twenty years ago and the likelihood of armed conflict is therefore remote...