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...Britain during Depression. The British unemployment fund, established in 1912, piled up a ?21,000,000 surplus by 1920. The depression that followed wiped out the surplus and created a ?15,000,000 deficit. That depression was safely weathered and the fund sailed along on a fairly even keel until depression again struck in 1928. The fund tried to provide relief for most of England's unemployed and by 1932 it was ?115,000,000 in debt to the Government. Then England revised her plan, separated relief from unemployment, limited unemployment benefits...
Fortified with this spirit, Button has no great trouble in making the name of "Gold Eagle Guy" a power on the Pacific. He transports Chinese labor, marries his partner's fiance, and sails with brazen keel over all opposition. Faced in 1898 with ruinous Japanese competition, he steals government bullion from one of his own vessels, then scuttles her to conceal the deed. It is not money for which Button lusts, however, but rather power, and the ability to create. His faith in himself is colossal, and like Jeremiah, he shrouds all his actions in a sort of Old Testament...
Start. Conceived by the Cunard Line as the world's biggest ship, the keel of No. 534 was laid in February 1931, at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank. Her tonnage was 73,000, her cost $30,000,000. Eleven months after her keel was laid, work was suspended for lack of funds. For two years and four months No. 534 was an empty, half-finished hull. Then the Cunard and White Star Lines merged. The Government came to No. 534's rescue with a three-million-pound loan. Some 3,800 workmen went back...
Yankee had won most of the preliminary trials in June and July. Even the addition of five tons of lead to Rainbow's keel was not enough to win the first race against Yankee in the final series. In her second race Skipper Vanderbilt outmaneuvered Skipper Adams at the start to win by three minutes over the international course. A squall from the north when the boats were running before a brisk southerly breeze blew Yankee's parachute spinnaker flat against her mast, broke the jumper strut and forced her to withdraw from the third race. After the fourth, which...
...sticks. Meantime manufacturers piled up inventories of distress furniture, which led to inevitable price cutting and the ruin of 1,000 manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers in a single year (1932). The manufacturing industry managed to right itself last year, has been running on a fairly even price keel since last summer when business booked by wholesalers increased 100% over 1932, and prices on some lines went up as much as 60%. The Furniture Code, which went into effect last December, helped stabilize prices by forbidding sales below cost. But the boom of last summer and autumn has died away...