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...shall not go inside the church tonight. She must not see me stagger down the aisle...
Deepest gold mine in the world is the Robinson Deep in South Africa's Witwatersrand, whence comes more than half of present world gold production. The Robinson Deep has sunk an inclined 3-mile shaft to a vertical depth of 8,380 ft. At that depth miners sweat, stagger and topple in a temperature of 104°, a humidity of nearly 100. Working efficiency is less than 30%. With gold prices soaring and money to spend, the company asked Willis Haviland Carrier, Newark engineer, to plan the world's biggest air-conditioning plant. Last week, with plans drawn...
Strategy. The President had a choice of two astute alternatives when he came to make up his budget: to balance the budget (which was possible if he denied himself "unforeseen" expenditures for fiscal 1935) or to unbalance the budget in a big way, to stagger the country with a deficit beyond all expectations. Few political quidnuncs failed to agree that he had chosen the more astute choice. Their varying reasons : 1) By telling the worst and putting the worst possible complexion on it he destroyed fears born of uncertainty, hastened the financial community's acceptance of the facts...
...revealing deficits which could not fail to stagger the public he bettered his bargaining power with Congress. Congress was set to demand large expenditures. Now at least a part of the public will press Congress to keep expenditures down...
...Failure to stagger the maturities of bond issues. To this fault of simple financial naïvete are partly traceable the troubles of Detroit which has called on her creditors to refund $290,000,000 of her borrowings. Detroit, with depleted revenues due to Depression and banking crises, is faced with $138,000,000 of bonds due within the next ten years...