Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monetary Internationalism, Said Gates McGarrah, reviewing the Great Depression Year: "Events have shown to what extent our monetary systems, bott great and small, have become interdependent. Internationalism in monetary matters is now not merely a theory but an accomplished fact! The tidal wave of uncertainty and fear . originated in Austria, swept quickly through Hungary and Germany . . . flowed onward to Britain and the Scandinavian countries backwashing into the United States, and carried unusual demands on the American gold supply and credit system...
...months later in Vienna, to parcel out Napoleon's empire. No official summons was ever issued but in two months nearly every major European diplomat was in Vienna. Most of them might as well have been cinemactors; only five nations had anything to say: victorious Russia, Prussia, Austria, England and defeated France. They dealt behind doors, not in open Congress, through shrewd diplomats, not bemedaled clotheshorses. Metternich, the Tsar, and France's Talleyrand were the most important. Talleyrand, although he represented the losing Power, was able to break into the negotiations and align England and Austria against Russia...
...Author. His father cowed by business disaster, himself bullied as a school child. Author Salten learned young to pity both men and animals. Born in Ofenpest, Austria, in 1869, he had to make a living out of family charity until his writing began to pay. Thereafter, besides practicing journalism in Vienna, he has written some 20 books. Bambi, his first book published in America, telling the life story of a buck in the Wienerwald, was a great success. Others: The Hound of Florence, Fifteen Rabbits, Samson & Delilah...
...spring litters are frequently propagating by autumn. Before Great Britain was the sad example of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1905 five muskrats were taken from the U. S. to Prague. By 1914 their descendants had spread 90 mi. in every direction. In 1927 they covered half of Austria, had invaded Germany, were estimated to number 100 millions...
...economic recovery of the Danube valley, which has been affected more seriously than any other section of Europe, is the arrival at a mutual agreement for economic unity. In the long run, how- ever, the crisis cannot be solved without the cooperation of Germany and Italy, since Austria is unable to dispose of the surplus wheat produced in Hungary and Czechoslovakia by itself...