Word: safes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently it was almost as hard for a Russian to leave the Soviet as for a prisoner to escape from Sing Sing, but lately authorities have felt that conditioning of the young has advanced to the point where a certain amount of contact with the bourgeois world will be safe. For 500 hand-picked Soviet citizens there has been rumored a three-week excursion to France, Russia's one big ally, and a visit to the Paris Exposition. This will cost the workers 5,000 rubles each (officially about $1,000) and will include all expenses. In Paris...
...revealed in Germany that for many months 5,000 Nazi workers have been constructing at Diisseldorf on the Rhine a fair covering 192 acres, with 42 exhibition halls, 30 pavilions, 20 restaurants and cafes, an amusement park. Nazi censorship had kept the secret safe from the rest of the world...
...Reis is as disheartening as that which a 1933 book 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs painted for purchasers of a long list of U. S. advertised products. Mr. Reis's basic point is that, though the public assumes the New Deal has made U. S. banking and finance safe for the small investor, nothing of the sort has yet taken place. After long, sorry rehearsals of fiscal crimes committed "rider the Old Deal, he delivers this warning cry: "It is imperative that the investor rid himself once and for all of the illusion that the Securities...
...large sums which U. S. investment trusts spend annually in their research departments, Author Reis believes non-profit organizations can operate more cheaply; colleges and universities will help a non-profit project; Investors' Research would not worry about day to day market fluctuations, merely report whether securities were safe investments. Analogous to Investors' Research is the 64-year-old British Corporation of Foreign Bondholders. "But that's a little organization for big investors," says Author Reis. "What we need is a big organization for little investors...
TRUMPET OF JUBILEE-Ludwig Lew-isohn-Harper ($2.50). Apocalyptic family chronicle of a German-Jewish family whose experiences range from Hitler concentration camps to the World Wars of 1940-2000, fought successfully to make the world safe for the lower forms of animal life. About equal parts of Zionism, Wellsian phantasy...