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...Also make a suggestion as to the saving that could be effected during this depression by dispensing with a certain percentage of worthless and vicious curs? Why should dogs dispute for food with babies during the coining winter? I know that breeding dogs for profit is a highly commercialized, if somewhat disgusting, branch of our economic system, and that we must not step too harshly upon the dog industry: but it does seem as if something could be proposed at this opportune time to at least mitigate the do" nuisance...
...expenditures Japan's Army & Navy will absorb nearly half. From Manchuria, excuse for these expenditures, there has come glory but no revenue. Facing the fact of national incapacity to pay, Finance Minister Takahashi prepared to make up his staggering deficit by issuing bonds. He hoped that Japanese tycoons who profit from exploitation of Manchukuo will buy them...
...stroking his handsome mane, "it is simply a question-to use almost textually the expressions which on two occasions the American Secretary of State has used-of considering that since by common accord all civilized nations have outlawed war any nation making war now can no longer continue to profit by the legal rights of belligerents. "War being outlawed, it is logical that he who wages war shall be deprived of the economic aid without which adventures of this kind could get nowhere in the modern world. It is necessary at the same time that it be known in advance...
...half the world's ships ride at anchor, rust-streaked and dingy. Dwindling water-borne commerce has forced the great shipping lines to lay up ships, slash services, cooperate with traditional rivals in eliminating duplicate runs. When these economies failed to shore up crumbling merchant marines, pride and profit have dictated mergers. North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American signed a 50-year pact partitioning their North Atlantic trade. In his Fascist forge Benito Mussolini hammered three big Italian firms into the Italia Line, cocky owner of the new S. S. Rex and S. S. Conte di Savoia. Roosevelt-Dollar...
Dinner at Eight (by Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman; Sam Harris, producer). In collaboration for the first time since they wrote The Royal Family, Playwrights Kaufman & Ferber have turned out a piece in which they should take pleasure and profit, too. Dinner at Eight is seriocomic, and it may be inferred that Miss Ferber supplied the serio-element, Mr. Kaufman the comic. The deft Kaufman hand, however, is thoroughly evident in this excellent play's shrewd direction...