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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation spanking wenches danced in the streets till the small hours, workmen, on paid holiday, swizzled smooth Holland gin, and school children, shipped to Amsterdam to view the parades, were treated with pictures of the Queen and slabs of ice cream. Highspots of the week-long festivities: the largest military review The Netherlands has ever seen, witnessed by the Queen (one of her favorite royal duties) : a commemorative service in Amsterdam's very old Nieuwe Kerk (New Church), where the Queen was crowned in 1898; a march past the Royal Palace, through triumphal arches laden with orange roses...
...barracks at the Party Camp adjoining the broad Lake Dutzend and buildings. Pending the completion of super-colossal March Field, Adolf Hitler this week had to be content with the Zeppelin Meadow, holding 100,000 spectators. And pending the completion of the Nazi Congress Hall, world's largest (40,000 seats). Orator Hitler was to speak to 10,000 sitters and 20,000 standees in Luitpold Hall. Also on schedule was the annual early morning service for the Party dead in the Luitpold Arena, a Youth Rally in the Old Stadium. A Labor Service drill...
...high for 1938. But signs of increasing revenue-like hopes for lower wage costs (see above)-are only details in the sorry railroad picture; last week bonded indebtedness still cast its shadow. Prime example of a railroad staggering under top-heavy debts is 111-year-old Baltimore & Ohio, fifth largest U. S. railroad (in revenue). The line has some $685,000,000 in fixed indebtedness, on which it has had to pay over $31,000,000 in interest annually. B. & O. lost $720,695 last year, $11,741,308 in the first half of this year. In January...
...that its financing out of revenue had bled the country white, had caused a prohibitive tax to be levied on sugar and tea and forced down the exchange value of the currency. Not one rial of foreign money went into its construction. Skipping most of Iran's largest centres, crossing mountain ranges, connecting with no foreign railways, the line is patently uneconomic. But Danish engineers, with the help of U. S., German, Italian, French, Swedish contractors, made it a striking engineering job with its numerous spectacular tunnels (one a bizarre spiral affair), many high bridges, frequent gorge-crossing viaducts...
...Secretary Wallace signed a Federal-State milk marketing agreement which 39,000 dairymen had approved 6-to-1. Thus the world's largest milk market (6,500,000 qt. a day), New York, became the 22nd district to get such a plan. Marketing Specialist Erskine Harmon was appointed Federal administrator to police the New York industry and maintain the established minimum price paid to farmers (base: $2.45 a cwt.). In drafting the New York program, designed to settle the longtime controversy between farmers and milk distributors in New York City's milk-shed, everyone but distributors (Borden, Sheffield...