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...amount involved. ... No part of the debt has been cancelled or reduced; the postponed amounts are repayable over a period of ten years at 4%. ... In saving the collapse of Germany, the American people have done something greater than the dollars and cents gained. . . . They have contributed to maintain courage and hope in the German nation." ¶:As usual last week the Press spotlight focused glaringly upon the White House Christmas. Sons Herbert Jr. and Allan arrived from California with Mrs. Hoover Jr. and Grandchildren Peggy Ann and Herbert ("Peter") III. But this year Hard Times, more as an example...
...miles from the "Loop." Its seating capacity is 25,000. Its organ, strong as 25 brass bands, smashes electric light bulbs by its vibration when played fortissimo. Delegates will not have to sweat disgustingly in their shirtsleeves, because the huge building is equipped with an airicing machine to maintain...
...outside of the furnace was heat-insulated, and a temperature gradient was established through the heat insulation to a water-cooled inductor coil. This carried the heat away, prevented the outside of the furnace from getting hot and breaking down the charge coil, which had spoiled earlier efforts to maintain high temperatures...
...Hesse were all Hitler-controlled. Adolf Hitler sat in Berlin giving press interviews as though he were already Chief of State. In Leipzig a congress of pharmacists and physicians turned into a typical Fascist rally. Hitlerite orators, drunk with the sound of their own voices, shouted their program to maintain the superiority of "the Nordic race, the finest flower on the tree of humanity." They mentioned the hanging of Marxists, abolition of trade unions, compulsory sterilization of Jews...
...make the quota law enforceable and prevent wheat 'legging, certificates of "dominion origin" would accompany each shipment and the British Government would check these certificates at the British importer's warehouse, then double-check at British flour mills, where each miller would be obliged by law to maintain the 55% "dominion proportion" in each & every sack of British flour...