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Declaring that Russia must not slacken but must even speed up the tempo of her Five-Year Plan, Stalin concluded almost fiercely...
...dramatic drain of gold from the Bank of England into the Bank of France (TIME, Dec. i et ante) continued last week at quickened tempo, reached $1,750,000 daily. When $5,000,000 of virgin gold arrived in England from South Africa, the French snapped it up, contracted for another $5,000,000 shipment due this week. In London the price of gold was forced up to 855 1½d. per fine ounce,* the highest price since British currency went back onto a gold basis in 1925. In Paris the gold reserve of the Bank of France swelled...
...Medici. He procures young girls for his cousin the duke, performs so many shameless services that he becomes corrupt himself, forgets his vow to free Florence from its tyrant. His mother finally stirs him with a story of having seen the ghost of his innocent youth. The tempo increases. Lorenzaccio's young aunt is sacrificed to the duke's lust. An old friend is victimized. But the greatest damage has been done to Lorenzaccio's own soul. To revenge himself, he finally kills his cousin-a scene made memorable last week by the superb, cumulative performance...
Frequent rest periods and a sympathetic audience for one's woes make the worker more efficient and productive according to Business School investigators in psychology. It is a welcome change for the efficiency expert to attempt for once to moderate the wheels of industry instead of everlastingly increasing their tempo and it must be a still more welcome change for the poor office workers to have a human interest shown in their affairs. Sympathetic listeners are all too few in any sphere of life...
...sheep in Algeria. Of U. S. businessmen he remarked: "They die at the age of 50. They do not die in the sense that life is extinct. But they are exhausted, worn out, and as good as dead. Their lives are finished. It is due to the pace, the tempo of life in America, the price the American must pay for being ultra-modern...