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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finest motor car smashups in all the World happen at little crossroads in rural France. For one thing there are no speed laws and barely any traffic. Why then drop below 100 kilometers per hour (62 m. p. h.), just because the perfect road down which one is whizzing must soon cross another? Sacre bleu! If one is a French chauffeur, and if one has waited in the sun all morning at the wheel of a Bugatti or a Farman* then what joy, what exhilaration, when one's fat Spanish employer and a couple of his "little girls" scramble...
State of Manhattan. Alan Grant Ogilvie, Reader in Geography at the University of Edinburgh, only child of Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie (chairman of the British Geological Survey Board), took New York City as the illustration of what can happen to a district happily situated geographically. New York's tides fluctuate only four to five feet.* That helps shipping. The terrain changes practically not at all. Travel routes naturally converge toward the city. He recommended that the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut cede land for the formation of a State of Manhattan. The natural Manhattan area...
Suicides are fewest in physically comfortable weather. Most happen...
...preach to them three things-posture, exercise and the wearing of suspenders. There are more big stomachs caused by the wearing of a belt than any other one thing I know of, because if one doesn't stick one's stomach out, something embarrassing is going to happen...
...Currencies were crashing all around us, and while the guilder held firm [at about 40?] we didn't know what might happen. . . . We decided that America's indorsement of our solvency would be of great value, and went to America for money. Since then most of that loan has been bought back by Dutch investors. Our finance, gentlemen, is sound...