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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Trade: "German foreign trade has markedly progressed toward stability. The margin of excess imports over exports narrowed in the past year, and in September both attained a substantial equilibrium for the first time since 1926. This is partly due to the decline of imports, but exports reached the largest dimensions since 1924. Exports and imports came to an equilibrium in September at a level of approximately 1,100,000,000 marks as compared with...
...tendency to interpret as prophecies for the future many portions of our report which were in fact mere statements of past happenings...
...cabled to Berlin, these guarded words were featured by the press, along with a report just issued by Commercial Attache of the U. S. Embassy F. W. Allport. With a pessimism which delighted Germans, Attache Allport lugubriously observed that: 1) The number of German unemployed has increased during the past month from 671,000 to 1,030,000, making 70% more out-of-work than in 1927; and 2) "The five weeks shut down in the steel industry, which came to an end early in December, caused serious dislocations in the iron, steel, coal and coke trades...
...story of a great lady, married to a respectable lord, and trying (out of noble motives) to conceal a long-past love affair. She is unaware that her illicit child still lives to commemorate her indiscretions...
...contests in the 165-pound and unlimited classes were particularly exciting, both going to two overtime periods before the University wrestlers could gain a fall. In the former match, G. L. Graves '31, who has been forced to take off 10 pounds during the past week collapsed after winning a fall from his opponent at the end of 12 minutes and 35 seconds of fierce wrestling. W. H. Boldt '30 was likewise a victor in an overtime contest, forcing Cuneo, 230 pound football player, to carry the match into two overtime periods, finally throwing the Columbia grappler for a fall...