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More than 500 Austrians died in the civil war which Nazis started in Styria Province at the signal of a bullet fired into heroic little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss' spinal cord (TIME, Aug. 6). Last week the new Government of stern, thrifty Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg took the amazing step of compelling one man to pay the entire cost of Styria's civil...
...Thomas' last challenger. . . . The next morning Charles E. Nicholson, the designer, came to see me about a new mast. He left with an order for a challenger. . . . Endeavour goes well to windward and in a jump of sea. . . . What about her chances? How long is a piece of cord...
...appeared in a uniform of snow white silk from head to feet. Around his waist was a broad black and silver sash from which hung a red leather holster and a golden dirk of honor. From a shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...
...share). In 1929 Auburn stock hit $14. Last week it was down to $6, an alltime low. A speculative favorite during the early years of Depression, it gyrated between 84 and 295 in 1931, sold above 150 even in 1932. Out of Auburn stock President Errett Lobban Cord reaped the quick fortune which put him into aviation, shipbuilding. ¶Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston last week filed with the Federal Trade Commission for registration under the Securities Act, a $35,000,000 coupon note issue, biggest since the Act was passed. Proceeds were to be used...
...small laboratory 15 years ago when Tommy Milton, whose cars he had "doctored," commissioned him to build one. He dislikes plotting engine areas, explains his ideas to subordinates who put them on paper. No businessman, he has sold enough patents, like those for the front-wheel drive under which Cord operates, to make him several fortunes. Yet he is perpetually in financial straits, once refusing to discuss a deal which might have made him rich because the manufacturer "talked engines like a durn fool...