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...France, the French Government has a budget deficit to hold its own with any in the world, and must raise 5,000,000,000 francs by July 1. Another internal loan would be a risky business. To charm the francs from Jean Frenchman's famed sock to float the last one, the Government was forced to offer 4½ bonds at 98½ with the costly promise to redeem at 150. France therefore gets the money she needs from Britain, and at nearly half the interest rates she would have had to pay at home. Second reason...
...upper deck to float free of a sinking ship...
...mere hope because prices and indices had shown a little upturn. There was the beginning of the attitude: what now if not inflation? Either inflation because commodity prices would be turned upward by natural and governmental stimuli; or inflation because the Government is committed to spending billions, must float bond issues to reopen banks, save mortgagors, provide relief and a dozen other costly enterprises. Or inflation because the Government might reduce the gold content of the dollar. Or simply inflation in expectation of inflation. Inflation or inflation or inflation. What other alternative...
...sample of U. S. fighting craft. One important function to which the Corsair is specially adapted is catapulting from battleships and light cruisers, a maneuver in which the U. S. Navy has always surpassed foreign forces. A reason for U. S. superiority is its development of the single-float type of seaplane gear, as in the Corsair. Foreign seaplanes are usually of the twin-float type which, if strong enough to withstand the shock of catapulting, lacks speed and maneuverability in air. The Corsair shipped to Britain last week lacked the Navy's catapult attachments and had an outmoded...
...persuades they could never be happy together. He comes upon the girl he loves on the eve of her marriage; and after rendering her fiance sufficiently disgusting with a strong emetic, he snatches her away before she knows what is happening. Through the night, pant a burning airplane, they float down the river; and in the morning they find themselves out at sea, faced with the future together, and the problem of getting back...