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What excited this oldtime salesman, who got his start lugging a sample 50-lb. radiator section around the Midwest, was the first upturn in his business in six years. And Mr. Woolley credited it entirely to the Federal Housing Act which provided, among other things, for partial Government guarantees on repair and remodeling loans up to $2,000 (TIME...
Probably more important is the discussion of the second point--how different groups within each house have mixed. He points at the partial breakdown of the clubs, to be sure, but follows this up with this suggestive message, "Ask any one of the handsome and efficient headwaitresses who quietly preside over our eating-halls and if you are tactfully persistent she will show you where this group eats every day or what hour that coterie file in and take their seats at their favorite table by the window. She will point out where the public-school boys customarily...
...thing is that while Germany undoubtedly has both the gold and dollar exchange necessary to effect a complete transfer of interest payments now, she most certainly has not enough of either to meet her short and long term capital obligations as these fall due in the future. The present partial default on interest payments in merely a symptom of the folly of an impossible tariff and its incompatibility with payment-in-full to creditors in Wichita and Kalamazoo, especially when its ill-effects are aggravated by inflation...
...Rumors of an impending upheaval in Spain gained partial confirmation late tonight when it was reported by authoritative sources that a general strike would be called throughout the republic at midnight...
...Bronx lumber yard whence came the scantlings in the kidnapper's ladder. He was, indeed, a carpenter. Under the floor and in the walls of his garage was found $13,750 more of the ransom money. The taxi-driver remembered him in a minute. "Jafsie" Condon made a "partial" identification. Handwriting experts agreed that the lettering in the ransom notes unquestionably matched samples of Bruno Richard Hauptmann's penmanship...