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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breathe, stirred the very heart and soul of one of Harvard's embryo investigators of nature to such an extent that, in a militant spirit, he advanced against the upper reading room, surrounded some of the doubtful air by vigorous charges of an atomizer in two one liter flasks, and bear a cautious retreat to Boylston Hall, holding tightly...
Bootlegging is a source of great concern to the police. Although the country is not dry, alcoholic beverages are saddled with exceptionally high duty, which acts in some measure as an effective prohibition law. The smugglers buy the spirits in Germany at one crown a liter and sell it to Scandinavian countries at six crowns or more. The perplexed police are biting their nails with anger at the baffling tactics employed by the smart rum-runners...
This continuous decline of the mark must mean the gradual disintegration of. German industry and government. Although the average worker is earning only about 300 marks a day, men's suits are priced at 40,000 marks, a pair of street-shoes at 10,000, a liter of milk 48, and other commodities in proportion. From these figures it is evident that the mass of people is swiftly losing its buying power. This means, in the long run: hunger. And the unequivocal teaching of history is that hunger is the torch of revolution...