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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Balancing the chance to provide thousands of jobs to unemployed against draining several million marks from the city treasury, Mayor Sahm issued calls to city department heads last week for a great conference to decide whether to wait for more damage suits or to start at once replacing Berlin's 70,000,000 sq. feet of asphalt...
...reduction of rail employes' wages would pay the railroads' tax bill-nearly a million a day. That was what the managers had come to Chicago hoping...
...Where he will find so much money remained somewhat of a mystery, but last week Chancellor von Schleicher announced that in 1933 his new Ministry for Re-employment will spend two billion, seven hundred million marks ($642,600,000) to make work for Germany's unemployed who now stand at the staggering total of 5,600,000-or more than one-quarter of all workers in the Fatherland...
...loan and received it. "The directors all knew that Mr. Insull had heavy obligations." said Mr. Young. "And I do not think they were surprised when he came to the General Electric. He was a large customer and if he was in need of a million or two. it was not extraordinary that he should come to us." Mr. Young told Counsel Jacobson that no questions were asked because "knowing Mr. Insull as you do . . . and bearing in mind that he had offered a note with a collateral margin of 40% which he offered to maintain and in addition endorsed...
...influenza which swiftly spread over the South and West (TIME, Dec. 12) by last week had filtered North and East. Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming estimated a quarter-million cases in the country, up from 65,000 three weeks ago. But the disease this year is mild, kills few victims...