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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make the summer innkeeper unhappy. Chief among these is the "auto camp." Guests no longer arrive bag and baggage via the railroad station, meat for the innkeeping Caesars. Instead they enter resorts under their own power, and proceed to the inexpensive hospitality of the "auto camp." Food they obtain from neighboring farmers, who in consequence are first to defend the camping motor tourist. Moreover, no one wants to stay put anywhere for even a week, and the landlord's toll is apt to be nightly rather than by the week or month...
...capacity with diplomats, distinguished visitors and breathless journalists. On the floor of the chamber, 441 Reichstag members assembled. A two-thirds majority, or 294 votes, was needed to enact certain parts of the Experts' Plan legislation?the mortgaging of the Reich railways to the Allies, for example. Failure to obtain the required majority would have meant dissolution of the Reichstag and a general election...
...They declare that they are firmly resolved to use all the means which are in their power to obtain the immediate realization of their claims, and are resolved to defend with an inflexible energy their rights, their liberties and their traditions...
Commercial. Another of the impediments to the smooth running of the conference was concerned with commercial treaties. In return for concessions granted to Germany in respect of the Ruhr, France desired to obtain solid commercial advantages for herself, particularly with reference to an extension of the Alsace Agreement, incorporated in the Versailles Treaty, by which Alsatian produce is admitted duty free into Germany. In light of a coming era of renewed commercial activity Britain and Italy were also anxious to conclude new commercial treaties. The whole matter became so complex that it was decided to hold a special conference...
...cards on the table by revealing their requirements, yet they have eagerly used the producers' figures. As long as a condition of overproduction of copper existed, this unequal situation was greatly in favor of the manufacturers, who could use their knowledge of the non-fabricated copper market to obtain the lowest possible prices on all occasions...