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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copper and lead companies who mine most of U. S. silver, and greatly please the seven states* which mine 95% of the U. S. silver output. Meanwhile the U. S. Treasury would have to pay for large quantities of silver to be buried in its vaults and several hundred million dollars of currency would be paid out to silver producers and speculators. Faced with the combined strength of the silver and inflation blocs. Administration leaders scratched many a greying lock while they wondered how they could muster enough votes to beat this bill, or emasculate...
...husbands promptly died and Georges Sarret pocketed most of the insurance money on threat of turning the Schmidt sisters over to the police as poisoners and War spies. From then on the business prospered. Sarret, Schmidt & Cie. made its first mistake when healthy Catherine Schmidt insured herself for a million francs as Mageli Herbin, and the real Mageli Herbin promptly died of pneumonia. Insurance companies became suspicious. Detectives investigated and found a series of mysterious facts but no direct evidence of crime. Sarret. Schmidt & Cie. were in the habit of renting various small villas as "nursing homes." Under a boulder...
...wish to be unduly alarmist." said he, "but the farthest nebulae are doubling their distance from us every 1,300 million years and astronomers will have to double the apertures of their largest telescopes every 1,300 million years simply to keep up with their recession. I'm glad that you in America are planning to replace your 100-inch telescope by a 200-inch way ahead of time...
...adopting a ten per cent rise in income taxes by recently reversing its action on the Couzens Amendment, the Senate has done something which will give many thousands of thinking people grounds for apprehension. An added fifty-five million dollar burden of discouragement saddled to the backs of the American tax-payers is an appalling thing to think about, heralded as it has been by the new bonus expenditures. And it is interesting to note that this blanket tax increase was put through on the same day as the adoption of the Finance Committee amendment to impose a processing...
Asked if his nose was insured against damage or less, the idol of a million maidens replied. "Yeah, it's insured all right Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer saw to that long ago. Do you know, they even insured it against theft. Can you feature anyone ever being able to keep my nose under cover?" queried Durante with a fetching smile...