Word: reporting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Nazi party, according to Donovan & Mowrer, spends $200,000,000 annually on an organization of some 4,000,000 agents. Said Donovan & Mowrer, Nazis require every German leaving the Reich to promise to report back everything seen & heard abroad. The great army of the political underworld includes private citizens, members of the Gestapo, the official Propaganda Ministry, the German Labor Front, the intelligence services of the German Army, Navy and Air Corps, officials in the embassies and consulates...
...effect of eleven months of war on Great Britain's economy was indicated by the Board of Trade's report for July. Imports totaling ?87,008,000 were up 11% from July 1939, while domestic exports valued at ?31,189,000 were down 22%. Allowing for depreciation of approximately 20% in the exchange value of the pound (which would increase the value of imports), this indicated a fall of 9% in the volume of imports-no great tribute to the effectiveness of the German U-boat and air blockade. The excess of imports over exports for the eleven...
Morally, the Belgians were resigned and bitter. They obeyed but did not fraternize with German soldiers. The Nazi soldiers, under strict military orders, committed no outrages; handbills invited Belgians to report misconduct by Germans to the police. As crushing to Belgians as German domination and approaching famine was their complete isolation. Since the day of invasion they had been without postal, telephone or wireless communication. Like the Poles and Czechs, they had dropped out of the world...
...Foreign Missions Inquiry. The Commission produced the controversial Re-Thinking Missions (TIME, Nov. 28, 1932), which proposed far-reaching changes in missionary work, scandalized conservatives by insisting that Christians, instead of attacking non-Christian religions, should seek to understand them and cooperate with them. Mission boards gave the report short shrift, but Philosopher Hocking re-pondered it long & hard. Last week he published the result of his cogitations-Living Religions and a World Faith (Macmillan; $2.50)-and declared more firmly than ever that the world's religions must be replaced by one religion...
...come felt "a distressing sense of incompleteness." Checking the sneeze behavior of the woman's mother, he ran into another double-sneeze pattern. When a granddaughter was born, Dr. Erickson kept careful record of her sneezing, found three generations of double sneezers. In his report in the current Journal of Genetic Psychology, he concluded: "Variations in the [sneeze] pattern may be inherited...