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Economic domination is what Japan wants in China. Because her costs of production are practically rock-bottom, by a strong policy of underselling she is bound to destroy the Western market in China and in time achieve that...
Thus pressure on the franc last week was "psychological, not actual," in the opinion of foreign exchange experts. They pointed to the success of new Premier Flandin in winning huge votes of confidence from Chamber and Senate on a program of rock-ribbed gold standardism (seep. 21). The gold cover behind French currency stood at over 80%. Even so, psychological pressure was great. After-effects of the French crisis fortnight ago kept the currencies of four gold bloc countries (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland) fractionally below the gold export point all week. President Roosevelt, by relaxing completely the lax treasury restrictions...
Contrary to general belief the Auk was not an Arctic bird. It bred and lived in Iceland and on the islands off Newfoundland where French fishermen were responsible for its extinction. Auk hunting was simplicity itself. A gangplank was laid from a fishing boat to a rock on shore. Inquisitive Auks waddled painfully aboard, were knocked on the head and dumped in the hold...
...chair in the forest and dozens of other Dali works went on view last week at the Julien Levy Gallery. Among them : Monument to Woman and Child, a great grey whorl that might be wood or weathered rock, in which can be seen ogling men's faces, clutching hands, Napoleon, the Mona Lisa, a pair of buttocks; The Spectre of Sex Appeal, with a little child in a blue sailor suit by a rocky seashore gazing at a gigantic diseased figure propped up by forked sticks...
...plan they submitted to the Federal Court in South Bend last week bore the mark of long cogitation by their lawyers, Manhattan's famed firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood. It satisfied all classes of creditors and it left Studebaker in rock-sound shape. High points...