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...Front, was abolished. The ordinary budget (exclusive of emergency arms expenditures) was balanced by increasing direct and indirect taxes ($265,000,000 and slashing expenses, 40,000 surplus State Railway workers alone being fired. To leave the capital market free to industry, M. Reynaud promised that the Government would float no long-term loans until May. The recovery program pinched almost everyone, but the most anguished cries came from the labor unions, whose protestant general strike failed...
...this long parade of error, the work of Vladimir Poliakoff deserves a special float. For 20 years, from his six-storied London house, he has been sending out, under the name of Augur, a series of inside stories, interpretations, explanations, which have made him one of the most highly respected European commentators on foreign affairs. Last month he spoke his mind on Poland. Augur's Polish story...
...night; when they grow up, they are still afraid, but more afraid of admitting it. In this frightening darkness men lie down to sleep and dream. Generations of diviners, black magicians, fortune tellers and poets have made night and dreams their province, interpreting the troubled images that float through men's sleeping minds as omens of good & evil. Only of late have psychologists asserted that dreams tell nothing about men's future, much about their hidden or forgotten past. In dreams, this past floats, usually uncensored and distorted, to the surface of their slumbering consciousness...
...last week the President of the U. S. told White House correspondents that he could think of only three ways to get rid of the nation's cotton mountain. He could burn it in a huge bonfire. He could float it into the Gulf of Mexico and sink it-no fantastic dream, for Brazil, weighted down by a similar mountain of coffee, tried both...
...spot near the fireplace, with large windows. There are also a guard room, an electrically operated kitchen, and a balcony lookout. It is 6,000 feet above sea level, commands superb views of Bavaria and old Austria by night and day. The winds howl around it continually, white clouds float...