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...year expenditure of nearly $17,000,000,000, a two-year deficit of $9,000,000,000. By the end of the year the Public Debt had been increased from $23,800,000,000 to $28,300,000,000. And the Treasury actually found it easier to float new loans than it had a year earlier. But after making emergency expenditures of $4,500,000,000 the pump of industrial recovery was not yet primed and the prospect of a balanced budget was still very remote...
Said an airport mechanic: "She'll float, anyway, if she won't do much else...
...water hop to Honolulu. Nineteen hours later, off-course and lost, the plane's radio crackled out the dread letters PAN, emergency call of the air. Half hour later, fuel exhausted. Lieutenant Ulm landed on the water, sent out a frantic SOS.* Stella Australis could float for 48 hours in a calm sea. But the Pacific became rough and after 48 hours no trace of the Ulm plane had been found by 34 Army & Navy planes, 18 U. S. submarines, three minelayers, countless small craft. To spur the search, the Australian Government offered a $5,000 reward...
Completed three years ago at a cost of $1,250,000, the Embassy buildings, with their bases of steel gridirons, are positively earthquake proof. Let Tokyo heave and they might slide down the hill, but instead of collapsing they would "float" on the wavering sea of earth. L-shaped, the uncollapsible Embassy home is faced with white stucco, has a dining room in the left wing of the L, a living room in the right wing, a State staircase in the crotch. Of marble is the Ambassador's outdoor swimming pool and he may refresh himself and guests in three...
...knees of Orpheus. Dripping lines of water from the teeth of Cerberus will harmonize perpendicularly with the legs of the figure. Human torsos representing shades in Hades have been carved into parts of the angular unsymmetrical base. When the fountain works they, like the dead, will seem to float in the mists of another world...