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...land to do something about Unemployment. During the summer, when men out of work were not perishing of hunger and cold, this major problem was largely allowed to coast along on the theory that autumn would bring economic improvements. When no business upturn appeared, widespread preparations were started to avert another winter of long breadlines...
Program points: 1) salaries of all high federal and state officials, from President von Hindenburg to Deputies of the Reichstag and State Diets, to be cut 20%; 2) wages of all other federal, state and municipal functionaries, including German State Railwaymen, cut 6%; 3) rejuggling of taxation to avert an estimated $250,000,000 deficit at the end of the fiscal year (the tobacco tax, for example, being raised $40,000,000) plus a $125,000,000 "Reform Loan" to be floated (probably by Manhattan's Lee, Higginson & Co. heading an international group...
...Poverty and unemployment are feeding the flames of political unrest! What has happened recently in South American Republics would seem to be inevitable in Cuba unless the influence of our government is exerted immediately to avert trouble...
Prohibition. Prime Minister Bennett during his campaign threatened to have repealed for economic reasons the new Canadian law forbidding the export of liquor to the U. S. Should Minister MacNider fail to avert such repeal, the whole Prohibition smuggling question would come up afresh between the two countries...
...submarine S-4 went to the bottom, drowned 40 men (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927). To avert such catastrophes, Lieut. Charles B. Momsen developed a special "lung" life-preserver for submariners (TIME, Feb. 18). Last week at the mouth of the River Thames off New London, Conn., Lieut. Momsen took the salvaged S-4 to the bottom again with a newsreel outfit aboard-director, camera man, sound man-to publicize the success of his device by filming ten seamen escaping to the surface...