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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unless the Disarmament question, over which the United States is greatly concerned, is settled satisfactorily, the Americans will not lift a finger to help Europe further." It was clear from Dr. Schacht's other remarks that he meant by "helping Europe" a voluntary scaling down by the U. S. of what the Allies owe in War debts, thus permitting them to scale down what Germany owes them under the Young Plan. "The Americans are the only people," continued Dr. Schacht warmly, "to whom Germany may look for some possible initiative toward revision of the Young Plan...
What master hand was seen behind all this? Obviously that of M. Tardieu, journalist by profession, and among journalists the most popular French Prime Minister of all time. For once the "power of the press" was being thrown full into the scale to aid a newspaperman. Chances that M. Tardieu would succeed himself as Prime Minister brightened hourly. If in Paris there were some guilty editorial consciences, this fact eased them: both Chamber and Senate are so evenly divided between Right and Left that no real preponderance exists. The last vote of confidence in the lower house supported the Tardieu...
From the outset, the Ford company met with difficulties. The concession he bought was an old one and contained certain clauses which angered Brazilians, made a political issue out of the enterprise. Suspicion increased so soon as he paid more than the average wage-scale. He encountered difficulties in exporting seeds from other Brazilian states to Para, where his plantation is. Few of the rubber trees planted have survived...
Chief of the difficulties however has been with native labor. If orientals could be imported, rubbermen think the project might succeed. As it is, even the high Ford wage-scale has not attracted more than 2,000 where 5,000 are wanted. Riots and strikes have broken out; hospitals have been and are busy. A writer in India-Rubber Journal (London) last fortnight said liquor consumption on the plantation has increased 1,000%, a cabaret has opened adjacent to it. Rubbermen last week said the Ford plantation's closing down was only a matter of days...
...chauffeur's) instrument board. If the fuel mixture is too rich, the unburned gasoline vapor-hydrogen, carbon monoxide-will cause the platinum wires to glow hot (by its catalytic property), resist electricity. The battery current is thus shunted back through the nickel wires, to register on the graduated scale of the dial exactly what percentage of fuel is not being burned. Dr. Hutchison estimated the U. S. might save $1,000,000,000 worth of fuel per year (at a market price of 20? per gal.) by universal use of his invention...