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Gold was an even more ubiquitous policeman in the strictly economic sphere. The main rules governing gold were simple. If a country bought more goods than it sold, it settled for the excess purchases by shipping gold in payment. Since nearly all currencies were convertible into gold as a common denominator, a country that lived beyond its international income soon lost backing for its currency and promptly got into serious internal difficulties, which might even include threats of assassination to its finance minister. The main virtue of the gold standard was that it operated with the impassivity of a natural...
Food & Guts. Nazi propaganda has long claimed that Germany's enlarged economic sphere can more than match that of the Allies. But defeat in Africa shook many a German's faith in the Axis economy. A traveler from Germany into Switzerland said that on the day the meat ration was cut again, one German protested: "My God, this and Tunis...
Coeducation in another sphere was temporarily thwarted by an abundance of spring rain last Friday and Monday. The review on May 6 necessitated drill practice with the MEN--an unprecedented event in this lady's Navy--and we would gladly have given up some of May's flowers for the opportunity of meeting the schedule. But plans washed up the first two days. Sorry to say, some girls who never liked rain before actually blessed the elements for spoiling things. But honestly now, girls, wouldn't it have been better that way--all pals together, as it were--than having...
Depending on the team's playing methodically, Hanford hopes to beat Tufts' unorthordox attack. He is relying on either Jerry Levy or Norm Cameron to keep the Caouthouc sphere from entering the Crimson's nets...
...leads to fusion with whites, becoming not the Negro American, but merely the American. That this path stops at marriage seems little; it is not the ambition of Negroes to invade the privacy of family life. The other road leads to the development of the Negro within his own sphere. The latter would mean the serious organization of the Negro culture on a plane with that of other races. Segregation, if you like, but for development--not as a care-all for diseased racial relations...