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...water-diviner was given temporary prominence when he claimed to be able to detect ammunition dumps on the French coast. Since Hitler was queer for occult arts, Military Intelligence was told to furnish a Hungarian astrologer with the birth dates of high-ranking German officers. This piece of nonsense led to the useful discovery that the War Office's list of enemy officers was pretty much made up of dead or retired Germans...
...than Germany, fatherland of the classic cartel. (In the mid-1930s, experts estimated that nearly 2,000 cartel agreements were in force in German industry.) Already chafing under the decartelization imposed on them by the Allies at the end of World War II, West German industrialists (who furnish the ruling Christian Democratic Party with much of its funds) were in no mood to let Erhard saddle them with a permanent commitment to free competition...
...conversation with himself. The winner's name will gradually leak out, and he will be nominated when the all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) meets late this year. On the first Sunday of July 1958, Mexico will elect the chosen man. By last week political insiders could furnish a clear profile of this man, and were offering shrewd guesses as to his name...
...million marks ($17 million) on a new blast furnace that would more than double Turkey's pig-iron production. Excited Turkish newspapers headlined that Krupp "might" also finance a bridge across the Bosporus, "might" build a railway to Iran (he did say that he would be happy to furnish some of the equipment). German willingness to spend in Turkey partly results from Germany's $2 billion gold and dollar balance in the European Payments Union, which can most advantageously be invested in another EPU country...
...papers to protest his 100% Egyptianism. Another was laying siege to coffeehouse customers with a tape-recorded tune: "With freedom elect him. Elect Moussa Sabri." To make sure the fun was harmless, Nasser instituted a new legal provision last week: any speaker who criticizes any public official must furnish the authorities with documentary proof of his charges within five days of making them...