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...term {Continued on p. 50) {Continued from p. 6) for his act and those who these days throw steers-by horns. How necessity-danger-was responsible for Pickett's act is an interesting tale: It seems he vyas a "hand" on a Southwestern ranch, was helping load cattle, went into the car to "untangle" the load. Those starting the cattle into the loading chute did not give Pickett time to get out and back on the Runways or "prodding boards" but sent an infuriated beast down the chute just as Pickett started...
...situation in Japan at present is the collapse of agricultural values, including that of raw silk, to a price level at which the farmers who make up half Japan's population simply cannot repay the bankers. The Government, conscious that the farmers are laboring under an unbearable load, hopes to lighten this burden by a devalorization of the yen, but how this is to be accomplished has not been decided...
...carriers and leave the full burden of relief up to the R. F. C. Estimates of the relief needed by railroads ran as high as a billion dollars for 1932 alone. Reports were current that President Dawes was willing to have R. F. C. assume this full financial load with no stickling over collateral, whereas Board Chairman Meyer felt that the banks should not "pass the buck'' to the Government but continue their credit assistance to the roads. That there was nothing personal in this rift of R. F. C. opinion was evidenced when, after a board meeting...
...Zeppelin and his vice president Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsakcr told the committee that their corporation could have two ships ready within three years to begin weekly service of 2½ days per trip. Operating cost they estimated at $70,000 per trip; maximum mail revenue $63,000: maximum passenger load, 80 (at $750 fare...
...about so many cucumbers, but one day an enormous dish was served up with his compliments. The officers choked with laughter. After the Russian Revolution, when the jealous greenhouse-keeper became executioner of the Tribunal of that town, whenever prisoners, especially officers, were condemned, he would read the sentence, load his gun, fire it straight between their eyes. But the cartridge was always a blank. After he had "laughed heartily over his joke, the prisoners would be disposed of in the regular...