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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldiers did not reach the front in time to fight. In 1914-18 Liechtenstein was neutral. Liechtenstein is 15 miles (beeline) of the upper Rhine Valley. It is a flag stop on the Paris-Budapest railway. The scenery is unbeatable; on the east side of the valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village is Vaduz (pop. 1,715), the capital. None of the others shelters more than 1,500. There are no jails. Three green-suited gendarmes keep order. The inhabitants of the mountainous, comic-opera principality are largely cattle raisers...
...Liechtenstein now becomes part of Greater Germany the inhabitants will almost certainly lose their most cherished liberty-freedom from taxation. The ruling Prince, having long footed the Government bills himself, discovered in 1926 a way to relieve the strain on his own diminished income. Watching the rise of confiscatory taxes on corporations, wealthy citizens in Europe and the U. S., he smartly invited foreign corporations and private citizens to incorporate in his state and pay minimum taxes. Since then these foreigner-paid taxes, small as they are, have paid some 45% of the nation's expenses. The Liechtenstein family...
...Parliament hopes to invigorate the home industry by 1) upping the quota and 2) exterminating the quota quickie. Under the new sliding scale, Hollywood must this year produce 15 films in England for every 100 of its own it shows here. In hte next ten years the requirement will rise to 30 films per 100. But to qualify as a quota film under the new law, a production must represent at least $37,500 in British studio labor costs. Since labor is reckoned at about half the total cost of production, quota films in future will cost about...
...makers, Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, thought would end all such doubt. Resting on a chair inside was a cage in which waited a small, reddish-brown pig. When a lever was pulled, dropping 16 cyanide eggs into pans of sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died hard. Nine times the pig staggered to its feet and collapsed. The ninth time, three minutes and 25 seconds later, its corkscrew tail straightened out rigid in death. After...
...American Railroads. Last week, in common with many another railroad bigwig, J. J. Pelley was irked beyond measure. It was not merely that U. S. railroads face their greatest crisis. It was not merely that the Interstate Commerce Commission last fortnight gave the roads a 5.3% freight rate rise instead of the 15% the A.A.R. had requested (TIME, March 21). The cinder that really got in Mr. Pelley's eye was the fact that when President Roosevelt finally held his long-promised railroad conference last week he pointedly neglected to invite J. J. Pelley or any other working railroad...