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...gold. Shipping was the great Dutch source of profit during the war; even though submarines and mines sank 199.975 tons of Dutch shipping, the total merchant tonnage of The Netherlands increased from 1,297,409 to 1.574,000 between 1914 and 1919. In 1915 the Holland-America Line paid 50% in dividends; in 1916, 55%. Gross profits of 17 largest Dutch steamship companies were 32,400,000 florins in 1913; 141,147,000 in 1916. Gold flowed into Dutch banks (as it also piled up in Swedish, Norwegian, Swiss and Spanish banks). But taxes went up. It cost the Dutch...
Last week Courier Wagner herded his dusky charges into Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel. Few days later His Highness paid President Roosevelt a visit, his companions went rubbernecking about the Capital. But nobody checked in or out without notifying Courier Wagner. Between times he lolled in his suite, happily bibbing a double martini cradled in shaved...
Nowadays Carl Shannon is the highest paid man on his paper, next to the editor-in-chief. He is neat, careful, dignified and exacting. He will pass no headline that begins or ends with a preposition, and to him all two-letter words are prepositions. He expects to spend the rest of his life on the Enterprise and says: "I'm too old to be changing jobs any more." His friends think he is older than the 57 years he confesses to, but admit that he might just look older...
...Joseph and Eduard Strauss. Collector Lowenberg acquired 1,644 pieces of music. His family, on their uppers just after Anschluss, looked for a purchaser for the collection, found one in the U. S. Library of Congress. According to Dr. Karol Liszniewski, Cincinnati musician who arranged the deal, the Library paid Lowenberg's widow $700, a fraction of the collection's worth...
Reason the scribbling audience paid such close attention was that Willie Long Bone was speaking a nearly dead language. Despite a general increase in the U. S. Indian population, the number of Delawares is dwindling, and only about 40 of the oldest still speak the pure tongue...