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...problem of how much Germany shall pay in reparations?incomparably the greatest fiscal issue of the age???seemed in a fair way to be solved last week by a one-time plowboy from Van Hornesville, N. Y., and a son of a Danish mechanic who used to repair typewriters in an upstate New York town...
DISRAELI: A PICTURE or THE VICTORIAN AGE???Andre Maurois?Appleton...
...conference, leaving behind him in the Philosophers' Book Shop, Manhattan, one Captain R. L. Jones, full of faith. To a reporter of the New York Herald Tribune, the bookish Captain hinted that the reincarnation of Christ in Mr. Krishnamurti would occur quite soon, he being now 30 years of age???again reminiscent. And this information the Herald Tribune reporter expansively divulged to the public...
Professor Horace Lamb, the Association's 75-year old President, a Cambridge mathematics man of great note, put matters in motion with a resume of the modern description of Earth's age and structure. Age???"definitely between one and 10 billion years" as estimated by timing the decomposition of uranium and other radioactive elements. Structure?a hades-hot metallic core, rigid as steel; then an envelope of viscous material, kept fluid by enormous pressure, not heat conducting, having faint tides, upon which the earth's ,crust "floats". The elasticity of the envelope which is 60 miles beneath the crust...
...still too early. Enoch clung to iron?and when Aaron's son, John Breakspeare, brought his father back to New Damascus, dead, the clash between practical Enoch and young Breakspeare, between iron and steel, was renewed. The time was ripe for the monstrous birth of the steel age??? Enoch, singlehanded, fought vainly against it ? he broke himself and New Damascus, retarding for a few years the inevitable event. And when Agnes married John, after many vicissitudes, Enoch and Breakspeare were reconciled at last. This unique novel by a famed writer on business and finance is an extraordinarily interesting achievement...