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...Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, N. Y. was a month of slush and a series of mishaps on the Mt. Van Hoevenberg bob-sled run. Most calamitous of the accidents was last week's in which four members of the German squad, practicing on their round-runnered Deutschland II, jumped the slide at Shady Corner, going 65 m.p.h., and plunged into an 85-ft. gully. Steersman Fritz Grau, 37-year-old Berlin radio manufacturer, and his crew of three were hospitalized for sprained backs, concussions, lacerations, fractured skulls, broken wrists and shoulders...
Germany outstripped even the U. S. in exports last week. On the basis of trade statistics covering the first ten months of 1931 Deutschland became uber alles the world's leading export nation. Her surplus of exports over imports ("favorable trade balance") for the year thus...
Ever since his return to Paris, M. Laval has been hard at it with German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch (TIME, Nov. 9), but Deutschland has proved coy. If she is to take the initiative, Germany wants to propose a joint reconsideration of her business obligations (private short- term credits) along with her political Reparations debt...
...left eye of Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling was observed to be discolored after his July 3 fight with W. L. ("Young") Stribling. Last week was published an official diagnosis made by two physicians to the Boxing Board of Deutschland: "The left eye of Mr. Schmeling . . . shows an injury to the bony surroundings of the eye, bleeding of the conjunctiva, and a contusion of the eyeball, connected with swimming of objects before the eye and photophobe. . . ." The diagnosis made it plain that Max Schmeling will not defend his championship against Monstrous Primo Camera next September...
...Yawuz Sultan Selim slid down the ways of the Hamburg ship- builders Blohm & Voss (builders of the Europa) as the German battle cruiser Goeben. ?Speedy, heavily armored, with innumerable watertight compartments, she was as far ahead of her time as Germany's latest 1931 warship, the pocket battleship Deutschland. At the beginning of the War she slipped through the British and French Mediterranean squadrons to Constantinople, where she was nominally attached to the Turkish Navy as the Sultan Selim...