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...wagering in the letter I refer to above makes me laff, as if the accomplishments of the President of this country were widely known and thoroughly realized, the betting in his favor would probably exceed a million...
...fleets of the Cunard and White Star Lines will become an accomplished fact at an early date. It is the intention of the Government in that event shortly to lay before the House proposals for furnishing the necessary financial facilities for completion of the new Cunard liner" -scheduled to exceed the French liner Normandie as "largest and fastest liner in the world" (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932). ¶Adjourned over the holidays at 1:30 p. m. after a furious round-the-clock session which began the afternoon before. Battling every clause of the Government's bill to saddle...
...Last week the Commodity Exchange announced that there are 81,000,000 oz. in its seven licensed warehouses (safe deposit companies). Another 40,000,000 or 50,000,000 oz., it was estimated, was in other banks or in hoarding. Silvermen were alarmed lest the mounting pile exceed the city's available storage capacity...
...that the Saar question should be settled at once by Franco-German negotiation instead of by the scheduled Saar plebiscite in 1935: 3) offered, if permitted to increase Germany's armaments substantially above the limits set by the Treaty of Versailles, to pledge the German Government not to exceed the new limits. According to Ambassador François-Poncet's entourage, Chancellor Hitler exclaimed during their conversation: "Two things must at all costs be removed. One is the French sense of uneasiness. The other is the German sense of imposed inferiority. I am now directing my whole policy...
...production and 200.000 tons below the ten year average. Aside from the Dutchmen, production of native rubber, an uncontrollable and widely varying factor, has been one of the chief obstacles of a rubber-tight agreement. But the times are in joint: it is estimated rubber consumption in 1933 will exceed production for the first time in five years. This week all good Dutch planters will emerge from the jungle to ponder their delegates' schemes in Batavia...