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From the German point of view, President Roosevelt, in trade matters, is a shady coin-clipper who cheapened the value of the U. S. dollar and thus "unfairly" reduced U. S. export prices on the World market. In Washington's eyes, the German Economics Minister and Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht is also shady because he does not similarly and frankly reduce the value of all German marks but, instead, has created an intentionally bewildering list of different kinds of marks. Each has a separate value and all are manipulated to Germany's trade advantage by Schacht...
...been only a question of time before twentieth century ideas would make the activities of the D. A. R. appear so loath-some that no clear-thinking modern woman would venture to have her name on its rolls. In a few years more the sight of a beribbonned clipper-ship sailing through the Mayflower lobby in Washington will rank as a rarity with the Folger Library and the piano in the East Room. The task of upholding patriotism will then fall to the lower elements in the population. There is always the Massachusetts legislature...
...world which has seen history hinge so often upon the control of the seas and the superiority of one nation's merchant marine over another this comparatively new element through which international commerce is beginning to flow, the air, should have careful consideration. There was a time when Yankee clipper-ships sailed the seas in numbers that were symbols of commercial prestige and potential naval power, but the advent of the steamship found America napping, and today most of our trade is carried on in foreign bottoms. If the United States does not soon establish a definite air-schedule across...
...recurrent crackups as beset Overland Airlines (see above) have marred the bright record of seagoing Pan American Airways. In seven years of flying-boat service from Florida to South America, Pan American, up to last week, had seriously injured no passenger. Safe as a church seemed the 19-ton Clippers which have flown the run for two years. Yachts with wings, they had plenty of water to land on in case of trouble. Last week something happened to a southbound Clipper before it left the harbor of Trinidad's Port-of-Spain...
...small launch directly in his path. Although he swerved, a wing pontoon grazed the launch and the big plane skidded in a wild half-circle. The fragile hull split open and water poured in. Twenty-two desperate men & women scrambled to escape by hatchways and portholes. When the Clipper sank up to the overhead wing, two passengers and a steward were trapped, drowned...