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...trained upon a target whom he dared to attack only by indirect fire during his Army service-President Coolidge. "I recommended in 1925," he now writes, "that a board of disinterested persons be convened by the President to determine how the aeronautical problem should be handled in this country.** President Coolidge, instead of appointing a disinterested board, 'stuffed the deck.' He appointed on it persons well known to be hostile to the independent development of aviation. . . . Instead of creating a department of aeronautics separate from the Army and Navy as the English, French, Germans, Italians, Russians and Spanish...
...than the early Edison companies, a sphere of historic significance in any year celebrative of Electric Light. He resigned from his Edison connection because it was necessary for him to make a fundamental decision about this new electrical industry which was growing up. The decision lay between Direct and Indirect Current...
...that policy," he declared, "there has been a decline of 18 points (%) in the cost of living . ... while wages are almost at the 1924 level. . . . This means an increase in the purchasing power of our wages equivalent to the remission of ?161,000,000 ($780,850,000) annually in indirect taxation." Though such a statement is all very well for electioneering purposes it completely ignores the fact that thousands of British workmen lost their jobs when British exports to the continent were curtained on account of the refusal of Europeans to pay British "gold prices" in Europe's depreciated...
...French $800,000,000, and the German only $600,000,000, even so, said Dr. Schacht, it is paradoxically true that Germany is the most heavily taxed country of all. Reason: while the Briton's and the Frenchman's tax money is spent at home, to his indirect enrichment, the German's tax payments are largely wrested from the Fatherland in the form of Reparations thus impoverishing instead of enriching, as all other nations...
...indirect effect of this corn stalk utilization is the prevention of pesty corn borer spread. Stover rotting in the fields carries the borer over from one growing season to the next...