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...railroads ordered 2.303 passenger cars, last year six. But since the first of 1934, New York, Chicago & St. Louis has ordered as many steam locomotives (20) as all railroads ordered in the last two years. Last week Chesapeake & Ohio fired at the car-builders in one $17,000,000 salvo orders for 7,808 freight cars-more than four times as many as were ordered all last year. Erie boomed in with orders for 3,725, Nickel Plate for 1,200. Passenger car orders so far this year amount to 25 times last year's total...
With a last ripple of rifle fire, a last salvo of cannon and a mighty mingling of Indian war whoops and LaL., cheers, the soldiers of Bolivia and Paraguay stopped fighting in the swampy jungles of the Gran Chaco last week. Suddenly the chatter of tropical birds again seemed loud. Just before the eleven-day "Christmas Truce" was arranged by League of Nations statesmen (see p. 11 )-last year's Chaco "Christmas Truce" was arranged by Pope Pius XI-battling Paraguay pressed her recent supreme offensive to capture Bolivia's Fort Munoz. Whether Munoz. was captured just before...
...desertion and condemnation of the Administration. Now the Federal Reserve Advisory Council intones a sombre, if hollow, denunciation of a "currency of fluctuating value," while the New England Council points to a dire future if there is no stabilization of currency. No doubt we are in for a heavy salvo of such pronouncements, which will be as frantic and foreboding as they are uncomprehending...
...Reinhold Krause, a Berlin pastor associated with the extreme wing of the Nazi movement, has called down a summary rebuke from the Reichsbishop by a very curious salvo on the Old Testament. He uncompromisingly demanded "elimination of the Old Testament as a religious book . . and rejection of all ecclesiastical leaders who do not stand 100 per cent upon the platform of National Socialism." I can only interpret this demand as a suggestion that there is a heady and dangerous impasse between the political theory of the Old Testament and that of the Hitler party. How far is our thunderer justified...
While private charity was thus exhorted, Harry L. Hopkins in the dual role of Federal Relief Administrator and head of the new Federal Surplus Relief Corp., fired the first salvo in the Government's war against human misery...