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...month. Today Mitsubishi have invested $1,000,000 in brand new U. S. machinery, stepped production up to 500 cars per month. In Australia white salesmen moan as white prospects now buy from yellowmen 50 Datsuns per month, despite years of intensive Australian propaganda against the "Yellow Peril...
Idealistic New Yorkers called the plan a disgrace for a city which could well support two topnotch musical organizations. But, fact is, both the Philharmonic and the Metropolitan have been in peril of their lives, dependent on public donations which they cannot expect to be forever forthcoming. Many complained because the $500,000 raised last spring was for the Philharmonic and the Philharmonic alone. But the merger's promoters hastily promised that this money would be used only for the orchestra and its concerts...
...issued a circular declaring that "the word 'Dutch' must be replaced by 'Netherland' to remove the possibility of disadvantageous confusion." Ever alert for her trading subjects' welfare, Queen Wilhelmina was said to be personally behind this move to wake up Dutchmen to their boycott peril. That Adolf Hitler aspires to absorb the Netherlands Her Majesty firmly believes, has taken steps accordingly. She permits Dutch Communists to jeer at her when she opens Parliament but has outlawed the Dutch Nazi Party...
...seems that the University officials have been worried about the extreme peril which forces the poor student to dodge through the rushing autos on his way to the New Lecture Hall, and so with the co-operation of the State Highway Commission they have begun a survey to determine the exact number of cars and pedestrians frequenting the maze of highways converging at the Fire Station...
Bubonic plague is called the Black Death because its victims become a spotted dusky red. The disease compares with cholera as an Asiatic peril. It is transmitted by a germ which is carried by a flea from rats to man. The death rate is 80%. An infection of the blood stream, the disease runs its fatal course in a week or less, with high fever and great pain. Persons may be inoculated against bubonic plague. The use of serum in the first few hours of the disease reduces the mortality rate...