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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neighboring villages also announce their deaths in the Rundschau. But the city's rate of loss is probably over 10%. The 3,785 does not include deaths on other fronts, or wounded, or missing, or those whose families were too poor to put a notice in the Rundschau (minimum rate: 35 marks). In four and a half years of the last war, the area lost 3,148 dead, including 103 officers. This time, losses during two and a half years of fighting on the Russian front alone have been at least 20% higher...
Ready to Swing. The U.S. has been getting some 40,000,000 lb. monthly through a deal Jesse Jones's Metals Reserve Co. made with the Aluminum Co. of Canada, Ltd., subsidiary of Aluminium, Ltd.,* when the U.S. was still aluminum poor. RFC handed out $69,000,000 as advance payment on 1,370,000,000 lb. of aluminum...
...soon ask for legislation to convert all railroad fixed-or contingent-interest mortgage bonds into income bonds when earnings slump. Thus bondholders, like stockholders, would be paid only when earnings warranted, and the carriers would not be dragged into bankruptcy courts for failure to earn fixed charges in poor years...
Haverkamp. He is still making millions, and looks back with relish on his rise from a poor real-estate speculator to financier. In Work and Play he sets about divorcing his wife (and ex-secretary). He also gets mixed up, to his embarrassment, with architects, interior decorators and his private secretary, backs a play for his mistress and tries to hire politically ambitious Jerphanion as his secretary...
...Friedman and Jacob Sergei Kasinin became interested in G.G.'s and R.G.'s flouting of the accepted rule, made tes after test to discover some organic difference in the twins. There was no difference. The doctors even tested the flow of blood to the kidneys, because a poor kidney blood supply is believed to lead to heart trouble. Both twins had a poor kidney blood supply. Mystified, the doctors conclude that 1) Lead in the Pants has something the matter with him that the doctors cannot find; 2) Speed-Up George (who now has a heart attack daily...