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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Army, which had already retreated 100 miles, with a loss by capture of 390,000 men and 6,600 guns-the largest in the history of military operations-fled through Belgium, Holland, over the Rhine, swiftly and efficiently, in a manner that Liddell Hart viewed not as a rout but as a skilful military movement...
...night last week, while she was being loaded at her dock in Le Havre with art treasures for New York's World's Fair, $15,000,000 in gold for American depositories, fire struck France's third largest ship again. Because the Sûreté Nationale had been warned by an anonymous letter writer that saboteurs were out to sink French Line ships, because fires have become too frequent on French ships to be accidental, Frenchmen felt positive that the burning of the Paris was the work of foreign agents who do not want her used...
...Largest and most active of the general market molders is Chicago Molded Products Corp., operated by the four Bachner Brothers. Sons of a Chicago watchmaker, the Brothers Bachner started as diemakers in a dingy Chicago shop in 1919, organized their own plastics company in 1924 to do their own molding on their own dies. That year their net sales were $10,000. Last year their net sales were...
Already the fair has brought much new business to New York. The Hotel Astor, partly in anticipation of fair-increased business, spent $1,500,000 on new elevators, air conditioning, etc. Property owners along Queens Boulevard built $90,000,000 worth of dwellings. The fourth largest suspension bridge in the world (across the East River at Whitestone), an $18,000,000 project, will be opened day before the fair. North Beach airport near the fair was rebuilt at a cost...
...from a bonanza, The Netherlands might be an economic burden to Germany. It is dependent upon imports for 30% of its foodstuffs. Germany can scarcely feed its own people. Most important, Dutch bankers finance with generous credits the largest part of Germany's raw-material purchases, and this trade would end when the guilder ceased to be the monetary unit of an independent country. Dutch neutrality was of crucial importance to Germany in the World War. Great shipments of materials passed through the Allied blockade -via the neutral Netherlands...