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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Compania Transmediterranea. This company supplied food to the Entente nations and to German submarines with cool impartiality. By 1916 March had cornered the Spanish oil and petrol business. He sold shoes to the French army, traded coal and munitions to both sides, delivered American wheat in his ships, and built up a spy service that was available to all comers. Some of his profits went into Majorcan real estate, some into the National Sugar Trust. By the time the Spanish revolution broke in 1936 this grasping old man, now an octogenarian, had so compounded his World War profits that...
...labor and capital which war induces neutrals to pour into industrial plants is not wasted-World War I made the U. S. the world's greatest industrial nation. When war ends the markets for war-built industries collapse and those who have built them may lose their investment. But the plants so built are not lost. New markets are eventually found for basic industrial products and the greater part of such industries remain as assets to society, producing real wealth...
...invisible hearing aid for the deaf, built entirely within a set of false teeth...
...slipper with a whistle built in the toe. When the toe bends, it toots...
...problem of German drama. Heidelberg's Reich Festival, a good Nazi undertaking, is now in its sixth year. It has simply taken over Shakespeare, ignoring Salzburg and the Reinhardt tradition. Heidelberg has a Shakespeare tradition of its own: one of the castle's towers was built by Frederick V as a theatre for his wife Elizabeth (daughter of England's James I), and there Shakespeare's plays were presented in his own lifetime, before the rest of Europe knew his name...