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Thus spoke balding, be-jowled Walther Funk, Adolf Hitler's all-powerful Minister of Economic Affairs, in a 45-minute harangue last week to U. S. foreign correspondents. His pointed primer of Germany's world economic aims put U. S. businessmen on notice-that if Germany beats England and consolidates Europe, U. S. trade with the area that has been its biggest market will thenceforth be conducted, if at all, on Nazi terms...
Almost out of marbles, Herr Dr. Funk, with a wave of his hand, whisked away the U. S. Treasury's $20,400,000,000 gold hoard-about 75% of all the world's monetary gold. If dumped on an island which then disappeared, said he, its lack would not hurt the world economy. For in the new world economy the dominant currency would be the Reichsmark, whose value, as at present, would be "assigned to it by the State." And if the U. S. wishes to adjust itself to the Nazi system, it must lower the dollar price...
...public-utility reporter, a thin-haired A. E. F. sergeant named Sam Shelton, had long been convinced that Union Electric was buying politicians. Two years ago he got a break when Union Electric's moose-tall aristocratic president Louis H. Egan eased out a vice president named Oscar Funk. Funk, who had handled Union Electric's expense accounts, knew where more bodies were buried than a Nazi concentration-camp keeper. Shelton went after him, got his story, and scampered...
...Barn Dance goes on the air at 7 p.m. (C.S.T.), is sponsored in pieces of 15 minutes and more by Alka-Seltzer, Keystone Steel & Wire Co. (fences), Murphy Products Co. (poultry and livestock feeds), Woodmen Accident Co. (insurance), Edward Funk & Sons (hybrid seed corn...
Findings: > An average student recognized* (or correctly guessed) about 60,000 common words, 1,500 rare words, 95,000 derivatives, compounds, etc. Total average vocabulary: 156,000 of Funk & Wagnalls' 450,000 words...