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...issues involved in student waiting are three-fold...
...Germany raised enough food to feed her population of 40,997,000. But the years between the Franco-Prussian and the World Wars saw a three-fold growth of the city population, while the rural population stood still. After 1900 the trend frightened the military clique into demanding increased tariff protection for the farmer, and just before the famous shot was fired at Sarajevo the Kaiser's advisers were only reasonably certain that the food situation could withstand...
...charitable institutions and other groups that would add 6,000,000 to the board's present clientele of 42,500,000; that the board increase its subsidies to the States for dependent children and the blind. Then Chairman Altmeyer outlined his, and the White House's, three-fold plan to give more...
...Knubel cautioned United Lutherans against finding "more pleasure in disagreeing with other Lutherans than in agreeing with them." He urged them to "discern our three-fold responsibility today, for our inner unity, for unity with all Lutherans and for unity with all Christians." But unity, he declared, should be on a basis of "extremely studious discrimination." In the Lutheran basket, the chief egg upon which the United Lutheran Church looks with favor is the American Lutheran Church (some 500,000 members...
...July 31, carry-over of U. S. cotton was 11,656,000 bales, an almost three-fold increase over a year ago. Since U. S. cotton consumption and exports last year totaled 11,432,000 bales, only 556,000 more than the estimated 1938-39 crop, prospects for a sizable reduction of this tremendous carry-over are dim indeed. Last week, cotton prices tumbled to 8.20? a lb., making loans mandatory under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace singled out cotton as "perhaps the most difficult single situation with which we are faced...