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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detachment of Schutzstafel flaunted their authority, marching with Nazi banners and a band. This was more than the Czechs could bear. They rushed the guards, tore down their banner, scattered their ranks. A number were injured before the dutiful Czech police scattered the crowd, arresting several. Later a band of students surrounded a earful of Schutzstaffel officers and threatened them. The officers drew their pistols and fired into the air. When the day was over reports seeped even through the censor's office that four were dead, scores injured, thousands arrested...
...tonnage losses. She claimed 115 British merchant ships totaling 475,321 tons as against 210,021 tons admitted by Britain. At the same time Germany declared that only three U-boats had been sunk. Britain and France each replied with a report of another U-boat sunk, bringing the number claimed by them to more than 20 or nearly one-third of the known Nazi undersea fleet. From a smashed U-boat found on Goodwin Sands, British divers took more than 50 bodies. Score for the war's eighth week of all shipping sunk by German mines and torpedoes...
...Standard machine to test hearing is the audiometer, a phonograph-like device with earphones instead of an amplifier. When records are played, with varying sound intensities, subjects write down what they hear. With an adequate number of earphones, an audiometer can test the hearing ranges of a classroomful of children in 25 minutes...
Production of electric power in the U. S. last fortnight amounted to 2,493,993,000 kilowatt hours, which looks like almost as handsome a number as the U. S. 1939 deficit. Actually it is a very handsome number. It means that electric utilities is one industry which is not only producing 12% more than in lowly 1938, not only 10% more than in rattling 1937, but is selling to consumers about 20% more than in luscious...
...Freshman outplayed the visitors throughout the game and missed in number of close shots by inches...