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...Hitler's fast expanding Army, Navy and Air Force. Last week in Berlin most businessmen agreed that the dumping fund was set up chiefly because German War Minister General Werner von Blomberg has been loudly complaining that he cannot get together a proper lighting force if obliged to equip it with German Ersatz (substitute) materials...
...establishment of the new plan immensely increases the opportunities given to younger men to develop their abilities and equip themselves more effectively as teachers and scholars," he writes. . . . "Too often younger men, on this or any other college faculty find it difficult to save from routine duties in teaching enough time for their individual reading and research, and inevitably men who are thus handicapped are delayed in realizing their full potentialities, or are possibly sometimes prevented al- together from achieving the excellence they otherwise might...
...means of increasing their tax receipts and of thereby being able to pay their debts, and at the same time to build, equip and endow hospitals for all communities, thereby benefiting humanity instead of satisfying our own sentimental vanity, I propose that a tax of 100% be placed on the cost of burial, starting with the wreath or what have you after death, through to the finished and marked grave...
...Last week it looked as if Westinghouse would stay in the black for at least a decade. The American Railway Association, as one of its last acts before it was formally absorbed by the bigger & better Association of American Railroads, announced that 80% of its members had voted to equip their old freight rolling stock with new Westinghouse brakes already required by the Association on new equipment. Binding on all members, the vote called for completion of the changeover within ten years. Westinghouse not only invented the air brake, but, before he was through, nearly perfected it. All improvements since...
Corporative State? Ironically, the Man With the Cleft Nose was not mustered into the Hitler Cabinet to play the desperate role of Economic Tsar but to equip Germany with an ordered "Corporative State." Chancellor Hitler, who despises armchair economists, took a keen personal liking to dynamic Dr. Schmitt as a "frontline war fighter." (His nose, however, was not cleft in battle but in a student duel.) Not an original Nazi, Dr. Schmitt entered the Cabinet with a reputation as Germany's No. 1 insurance tycoon, a man of rugged integrity whose energy and calm enabled the Frankfurter Insurance...