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...Saratoga Springs, N. Y. the elm trees are so huge that from the air the town (pop.: 13,000) looks like a dense forest. There what seemed like the most successful U. S. racing season in 20 years last week reached its climax-a month-long meet in which 600 of the best thoroughbreds in the U. S. will compete in 185 races for $350,000 in prizes...
...creditors of some 8,000,000,000 marks ($3,140,000,000 at current exchange) and an annual interest bill of about $195,000,000. Last week one of Germany's smartest bargainers, Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, lowered the debt wall again at the end of a month-long haggle with representatives of Germany's U. S., British. French, Swedish, Dutch and Swiss creditors...
Crude oil prices have held steady around $1 per barrel for eight months. Big companies are lifting distress gasoline stocks from the market. Gasoline prices have lately been upped over wide areas. The month-long strike of service station operators and tank-wagon drivers in Cleveland has been settled. There was talk of a fuel oil shortage. The industry's earnings for 1933 soared above those for 1932. At the American Petroleum Institute's semi-annual convention in Pittsburgh last week Consolidated. Oil's J. E. Dyer key-noted: "The oil industry under the code has made...
...three expect to continue their "diet derby" until the month's end. But they are not altogether happy about the springtime sideshow they are providing for Chicago. Dr. Fishbein gave a lugubrious interview about their glands. Dr. Bundesen was making them believe themselves larded with excess blood vessels. Said he last week to the Herald & Examiner: "Each pound of fat contains 4,500 ft. of blood vessels. So a person 30 lb. overweight has 25 mi. of extra blood vessels." Result of the 21st annual month-long fast during which Harry Wills, walnut-colored retired prizefighter, drank only...
Religion. Over the Alps to Italy went Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen last week. He had just lost a month-long backstage battle for the last important German post not controlled by Nazis, the Premiership of Prussia. Adolf Hitler, making himself statthalter for Prussia, was about to confer the Premiership on his most active assistant, Capt. Hermann Goring, and that same Capt. Goring was about to set out for Italy to join Col. von Papen, whose job there was twofold: 1) to prepare the way for a later visit to Italy from Handsome Adolf himself; 2) as a good Catholic...