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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than she was importing, so that debt services in London were harder than ever to meet. The country's sterling reserves dwindled from $143,085,000 to $34,035,000. On top of this, an $85,000,000 loan is to mature in London next year. To save New Zealand's currency, early last winter Prime Minister Savage not only set up control of exchange but took the drastic step of restricting imports by 10%, announced that for the last half of 1939 imports would be restricted by 33⅓%. This move, although resulting in a more...
...William James Mayo, elder of the Rochester (Minn.) Clinic's famed Mayo brothers, went under the knife for an ailment he had often treated: perforating gastric ulcer. For a while "Dr. Will" rallied, but all the magnificent resources of the Mayo Clinic failed to save his old, wornout body. Last week Dr. Will died. He had survived his brother, Dr. Charlie, his lifelong friend and partner, by only two months. Still practicing in Rochester is the last of the Mayos, Dr. Charlie's son, 41-year-old Dr. Charles William Mayo...
...declares to suspend anytimes about this Rome and Berlin's axies anytimes. And then this Datche completly has closed up as face of the reporting as second war center staring line in Europe. Also few days ago if Datche falls into as dangerous situations of times, British can save her anytimes and its determinations of British attitude was declared by Premier Chambellin. But this Datche is now belong to the Poland's territory at all. That country is Free City as under the watching and protecting by the League of Nations...
...Most successful of all newsletters is grizzled, pipe-smoking Commander Stephen King-Hall's K.H. News-Letter. A smooth speaker on the "Children's Hour" of British Broadcasting Corp. (he told the boys & girls about Mrs. Simpson), Commander King-Hall started his news-letter to save himself the cost of answering his fan letters individually. Circulation of K.H. News-Letter has grown to 54,000 in three years, continues to grow at the rate of 500 a week. Commander King-Hall's chief source of information is the Foreign Office, where he goes three times a week...
Power Politics. Before the curtain still stands Willkie. All his maneuvers did not save the Tennessee Valley for Commonwealth & Southern (whose remaining operating companies still represent more than a billion dollars in assets). But he did something else. He took the case of the utilities to the public. He articulated the argument against public ownership, generating power regardless of cost, and the argument for private ownership, under regulation, selling power at low rates and making a decent profit on its capital invested...