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...through the last 50 years such a Mittelland waterway has been dreamed of by pan-Germans, opposed by jealous pre-War German States. But last week when the last ditch, connecting Brunswick and Magdeburg, was officially opened up, no German raised his voice against it. Fear that Ruhr coal might start moving into markets supplied by Upper Silesia was quelled by a pfennig-per-ton-per-kilometer extra canal fee between Magdeburg and Hanover...
What makes "Alexander's Ragtime Band" an outstanding and in places a profound production is the music. Mr. Berlin's succession of song hits reflect America's changing taste and changing tempo. They are presented here in chronological order, and the history of "jazz" is traced from its noisy pre-war origins, down to the sophisticated swing of today. Happiness, pathos, sentimentality, escapism, the emotions that characterized the years are all there, woven into a curious unity by a composer who has always written for the rank and file. It is pleasant to record that since the picture was first...
...readers can get their latest installments of the world's longest continued story. The book is Jules Remains' Death Of A World, containing the 13th and 14th volumes of his multiple-volumed Men Of Good Will, a vast, panoramic affair including several hundred characters, laid largely in pre-War France, and now totaling 3,756 pages. Five years ago, when Author Remains published his first volume and boldly announced the scope and complexity of his project (hinting that it might run to 25 volumes), some 11,000 U. S. readers bought copies. Thereafter sales settled so solidly...
Thirty-eight years later the search for oil was renewed in earnest. The War had ended, leaving Europe's battle-torn fields producing only a third of their pre-War yield of beet-sugar. On the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, Cuban cane-sugar soared from 6 to 22½? per pound...
...Valencia, with a pre-War population of 350,000 now swollen by refugees to an estimated 1,000,000, children were forbidden the frequently bombed beaches. A public subscription was started to send children inland to safe colonies. Twenty-five ambulances sent from abroad reached Valencia. Belgian Non-intervention Observer Paul Heemans was wounded in an air attack...