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...idea of life on Mars got a big push in 1877 when the Italian Astronomer Schiaparelli* first pictured the vague markings called "canals." Schiaparelli actually called them canali, which means "channels," but was translated "canals." Rivers cut channels, but canals are built by intelligent agents. In the U. S., Astronomer Percival Lowell picked up the canal idea with enthusiasm, claimed he could see them clearly. His theory: the canals were built to bring water from the melting ice of the polar caps, by Martian inhabitants desperately trying to keep their arid lands irrigated. Other astronomers, some with better eyesight than...
Part of the object of Administrator Straus's speech was to push a bill (already passed by the Senate) to increase his loan fund by another $800,000,000, his grant-in-aid money by $45,000,000 more per year. If he could get that, Nathan Straus could be on his way to re-housing 400,000 families...
...Straus stressed that all USHA work goes to private contractors. It is thus at the mercy of whatever restrictive influences may be exerted on Housing by makers and distributors of materials, by building contractors, by building trades unions. It was to clear the road for a big industrial push behind Housing that the Temporary National Economic ("Monopoly") Committee held hearings all last fortnight to search for such restrictive influences...
...private capital, say the New Dealers, will stand to benefit if behind the whole Housing push is put another force, which Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold announced last fortnight, amplified last week. This force is to be "the greatest trust-busting drive ever attempted." Simultaneously on a score of fronts, the Department of Justice will presently crack down on all manner of building-restrainers...
Meanwhile, Schroder & Co. had helped to form a company named Compensation Brokers, Ltd., which gave Germany strategic raw materials on the cuff. Germany's resultant debt served as an argument to push such German exports as potash in order to increase Germany's ability to pay. Last year, however, was a poor year: Schroder & Co. reportedly sold only $20,000,000 worth of the German Syndicate's potash...