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...this week. In its flight the plane will accomplish, in unforeseen manner, the dream of Cecil John Rhodes. It was his ambition to see a British railway "from the Cape to Cairo." The railway is not yet finished. But the 18-passenger ship which crosses Rhodes's rock-hewn grave is the first of a weekly service of Imperial Airways connecting not only Cape & Cairo, but both of them with London and India...
Foreign Exchange. A rough-hewn plug to caulk the constant draining of German capital abroad was the following order: "Whoever owns foreign exchange or has claims for foreign exchange shall offer the claims or the exchange to the Reichsbank on the ordinary business conditions, and upon demand shall sell or transfer them to the bank...
...Horrors." Among Britain's most militant anti-Reds is able Sir Hilton Young. He wants Soviet lumber excluded from Great Britain under the Foreign Prison Made Goods Act of 1897. To prove that Soviet lumber is convict-hewn, Sir Hilton recently submitted to the Prime Minister sworn statements by three Russian refugees that they as "convicts" had been "forced" to cut wood in Russian forests, had witnessed "horrors" (TIME, Sept...
...giant sawmill pools. If the Soviet Government would permit, U. S. inspectors might be sent to watch each Russian log from tree to sawmill to ship. Otherwise the U. S. Congress must now decide whether to bar all Soviet lumber because some of it is convict-hewn, or to admit the inextricable mixture as Mr. MacDonald is doing...
...husband took their children to France during the War, did relief work till 1919. In 1921 Mrs. Fisher was appointed a member of Vermont's State Board of Education. She is one of the five judges of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Other books: The Brimming Cup, Rough-Hewn, Raw Material, The Home-Maker, Her Son's Wife...