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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acquired Ostmark.* The road, to be completed in 1940, is the first section of a great highway which Germany intends to push through the Balkans into Asia Minor, via Belgrade, Sofia and Istanbul, as part of her drive to the East. Along the Czechoslovak strip, police, customs and traffic control will be in German hands. The two parts of Czechoslovakia will be connected by tunnels and overpasses. >So completely has Czechoslovakia come under German authority that last week it proceeded in the best authoritarian manner to nominate a President to succeed resigned Dr. Benes. Nomination (tantamount to election) was done...
Speaking from years of experience, Cox gave the following advice in the interests of skiing safety: "The average skier should get his turns down past, and be able to run under control. Then it is safe to run a little beyond his ordinary rate in order to progress. But in general, speed is like going to a party and getting drunk. Skiing is just as much fun in moderation as it is in excess...
Louis, Evansville and the soft-coal fields around Cairo, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Ry. is more important than its size would indicate, for it is a connecting link in the great Van Sweringen system. To get control of C. & E. I. after ICC had disapproved linking it with the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Vans pulled off a slick deal in which Paine, Webber & Co. acted as dummy purchasers. A subsequent circumventing of legal requirements, whereby the Vans got RFC unwittingly to pay off an inter-company loan, drew an ICC examiner's admission that "we were made monkeys of. . . ." Last week...
...rose on the convention floor to propose that bankers boycott U. S. bonds, Orval Adams has rarely missed a chance to snipe at the New Deal. Last week was no exception. Warning of a trend toward fascism or national socialism, he sombrely declared in his opening address: "To recapture control in Federal spending is the most vital issue confronting this great democracy. . . ." He then introduced RFC Chairman Jesse Jones as "a conservative" who had been "a tower of strength against Treasury raiders...
...military and naval force able to defend Canada and South America against the combined attacks of Germany, Italy and Japan. But this need, which he considers urgent, does not demand an enormous expansion of the army and navy, does not require industrial mobilization, with regimentation of labor, and paralyzing control of business...