Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Advance Base was originally intended to be occupied by three men not one; all the confusion that has arisen over the cause of the self-imposed isolation Admiral Byrd clears up in the first chapter. The reasons were both scientific and personal, and though they do not seem adequate considering the obvious risks involved, the more important fact remains that Byrd decided to go and go alone, Thanks to a diary, a detailed record of the events was preserved. Scientifically, important readings of temperature, barometer, wind directions and velocities were made, Personally, the story was told of a man face...
Julius Peter Hell, 60, of Wisconsin, born on the Rhine, self-made millionaire (furnaces, tanks, snowplows),paternal employer...
...spoliation did not end with the three-day pogrom. At the Air Ministry in Berlin last week, Air Minister Goring signed, as Economic Chief of the German Four-Year Plan for Self-Sufficiency. decrees providing: 1) that Jews of German citizenship as a community pay to the State a billion marks indemnity for the assassination of Rath; 2) that the State confiscate whatever is payable to Jews by insurance companies for damage done last week; 3) that Jewish owners of damaged premises must repair them at their own cost; 4) that after Jan. 1, 1939 Jews be excluded from "operation...
...Fridays and Saturdays. On those days, when there are always from one to twenty beautiful girls in the back of the hall, getting in shape for football or other athletic events, he indulges in brilliant cross-examination of his self-conscious wards. On Monday he is back at the Latin...
...capitalist system which must be remedied if we are to escape abnormally long depression periods is the restriction of production to maintain price. It is of prime importance, he observes, that production be kept going in spite of decreasing returns. Otherwise the closing up of productive units is self-perpetuating, prolonging the depression period...