Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This picture is deftly directed throughout in an even mood of triviality. It has no overtones of any kind, except a faint note to the effect that wives like husbands to praise their new negligees...
...Except here & there a stray picket
Salient fact about Germany then and now remains that she has few natural resources except her people. In important raw materials Germany has an exportable surplus of only two things: coal and chemicals. With a few industries (such as the electrical and dyestuff industries) the Germans have worked wonders. But ever since Germany ceased after 1871 to be a collection of medieval agrarian principalities she has had to import wool, cotton, rubber, metals, wood, oil and foodstuffs from beyond her territory...
...receipts by debt-creation" through forced loans. With the "secret" debt added to the acknowledged public debt of 40,000,000,000 marks, the total Government deficit may be as high as 54,000,000,000 marks. But prices #151;the popular measure of inflation- have not risen markedly except on the "black" markets, nor are they likely to rise as long as Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo is busy spying on the shopkeepers. The over-all German standard of living has, however, fallen by at least 20% since the depression. And if extended work hours, the quality of goods...
...Yankee fishermen put out in their dories, as coolly as if it had been a working morning on the Banks. With no time to get their oilskins, they piled overboard in their underclothes, all except 62-year-old Frank Nickerson. He fell dead on the deck of the Parker and his shipmates took his body along. The Rose went down in five minutes, the Parker in 25, leaving 47 men and twelve dories alone on the empty...