Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German prosperity is now general and increasing. Business failures are less numerous by half than in 1913. Unemployment has been reduced to 965,000 and is no longer a serious problem. Production is high in the coal, metal, textile and other key industries. The currency of the Republic is absolutely sound...
...most ominous German trend, from the standpoint of reparations, continues to be the large foreign loans being made to German states and municipalities. Over 3,950,000,000 gold marks ($940,100,000) of such liabilities are outstanding, and the funds which they represent have produced conditions bordering on "boom prosperity" in some areas. Agent Gilbert sternly warned that under Article 248 of the Treaty of Versailles the repayment of such loans is made secondary to and contingent upon the prompt payment of reparations. He concluded: "The States and communes have played a major part in the gen eral tendency...
Sudden and drastic was the passage by the German Reichstag, last week, of a bill raising the duty on imported automobile parts from 12% ad valorem to 28%. Enacted to take effect on Jan. 15, 1928, the new measure loomed, last week, as a deadly threat to five U. S. motor manufacturers* which have recently spent $12,000,000 on assembling plants and the development of sales organizations in Germany. Officials of the threatened U. S. group said, last week, that they had had a "working agreement" with the Ministry of Commerce that no such bill would be passed...
...REINHARDT'S SEASON - The great German master lends alien magic to the Manhattan playbill...
Explosion is about two men, one a villain, one a hero, who want the same girl. The hero gets her. Like all German films, this one has bright sparks of photographic realism, lighting in this case the smoky darkness of a coal mine. But these sparks flicker and die along the grey and interminable fuse of the story which leads, at last, to a nonexplosive climax...