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...upon the taxpayers necessitated by such a government expenditure would be offset by other advantages. All classes of laborers are given work. Furthermore, a naval program is a stimulus to a wide variety of industries, so that employment is possible for the man who works in the mines, the lumber yards as well as the steel mills and many others." Mr. Adams cited the example of France, which he said was now the most prosperous nation in the depression. "France has made tremendous outlays for army and navy. The question is not merely an economic one, for the United States...
They became Italians after the War when victorious Italy claimed Istria at the Peace Conference to help "make the Adriatic an Italian lake." Italy cared little about the grapes, cattle and lumber that grew on Istria's terraced plateau; Italy wanted a naval base. But when the Italian Government took a closer look at its new citizens it found that nine out of ten of them had symptoms of malaria. The plateau was full of semi-stagnant ponds where mosquitoes bred and rose in clouds...
...Cudahy, Wis., last week had on its books $1,360,000 of unfilled orders for bottling machinery and George J. Meyer himself wrote out and mailed a $5,000 check to the Democratic National Committee congratulating it because "at least one political party kept its pre-election campaign promise." Lumber prices in Chicago were reported up 10% to 20% on requirements for beer barrels and cases for bottled beer. All cooperage factories, like bottle factories, were last week running at capacity...
...first step in concentrating in History is getting rid of History 1, Government 1, and Economics A. All three of these must be taken, for the concentrator has really joined the Division of History, Government, and Economics. They are, in fact, "lumber" courses, bulky foundations for the real concentration which comes afterward. Yet they are interesting in themselves...
...marks in (but not out of) Germany. As an immediate result, British banks possessing 35,000,000 blocked marks offered to transfer this sum to the Berlin bank account of the Soviet State last week, in return for delivery in Britain of 35,000,000 marks worth of Russian lumber. Other results will be the purchase of German bonds & real estate with previously blocked marks and the payment of such marks to tourists in Germany against letters of credit and travelers' checks...