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Generally speaking, Soviet pilots are extremely reckless, constantly "stunt" over Moscow and other large Soviet cities to help make the populace air minded...
...Reckless Borrowing...
...During the boom which preceded the depression, many countries borrowed abroad on a large and even reckless scale. When prices collapsed, these countries experienced great difficulty in meeting their foreign obligations and were compelled, in order to conserve their gold supply and to limit the depreciation of their currencies, to restrict their imports and to control the export of gold...
...which ended in Philadelphia last week. Several of the twelve were ex-champions but the pool addicts who watched them, banked closely under the shaded lamps of Allinger's Billiard Academy, knew that only two had a real chance. They were Erwin Rudolph, onetime Cleveland office boy, a reckless and brilliant player who won last year; and tall, slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf, the handsomest indoor athlete in the U.S., who started to play billiards in Monmouth, Ill., when he was seven, became city champion at twelve, finished fourth in his first world's championship four years later...
...critics of democratic government, it could hardly do so more efficiently than by its present conduct. After wasting valuable time over fruitless squabbles about Senator Moses, it now proceeded to lose its head over the moratorium. The absurd spectacle is presented of a Democratic congressman defending the President from reckless threats of impeachment, uttered by a Republican. Meanwhile preparations for relief measures during the winter go by the board. It is doubtful if the spectacle enhances the prestige of "the greatest legislative body since the Roman Senate." Appeals to the efficiency of dictatorships, though superficial, indicate a pressing need...