Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government, payable in the currencies on the markets where those obligations are issued and their own internal obligations. On their internal obligations they have a right to tax the people until the issue is out of existence, almost." Heartless Contracts. Here & there in the U. S.. stern voices were raised to the effect that the Government ought to maintain international good faith by paying foreign holders of its bonds the equivalent of gold in paper dollars. But when May payments on billions & billions of dollars worth of public and private debt fell due at home last week, there...
...dock for nearly a half-mile run two standard-gauge railroad tracks terminating in two mooring circles, 4,000 ft. around. A mobile telescopic mooring mast, which can extend from a height of 77 ft. to 160 ft. will haul the airship along the tracks. A null "stern beam." built something like a flat car, anchors the ship's stern. Sunnyvale is a San Franciscan triumph over San Diego which fought bitterly for the air base. Businessmen of San Francisco and neighboring towns raised $470,000 to buy the 1,000-acre Sunnyvale tract, gave the land...
...years more he became a full professor. His most famed work has been in chlorophyll, the green stuff of life in plants. Last year Columbia University gave Dr. Conant its Chandler Medal, the American Chemical Society (New York section) its William H. Nichols Medal. Dr. Conant is rated a stern taskmaster -and admired for it-by his ablest students. Chemistry is his whole life. Yet he is no absent-minded professor: decade ago he leaped into the Charles River to save a would-be suicide. His wife, mother of his two children, is Grace Thayer Richards, daughter of the late...
...station for transoceanic aircraft. Onetime freight steamer of the North German Lloyd, the Westphalen has been rebuilt for seadrome purposes. Most ingenious device is the landing apron, an enormous sheet of tarpaulin criss-crossed by wooden laths. The apron trails in the water from the steamer's stern. A seaplane or amphibian alighting at the station taxies up the apron to be hoisted aboard- apron and all. For taking off there are catapults on the Westphalen's deck. Also she provides radio, weather forecasting paraphernalia, fuel etc. The Westphalen was chartered by Germany's Lufthansa, which hopes...
LONG LOST FATHER-G. B. Stern- Knopf ($2). Carl Bellairs, manager but far from owner of the recherche Tipstaff Restaurant in London, was exceedingly good at his job. His personal charm (he was a gentleman, and moved in fairly high society) was partly accountable; his knowledgeable nose for details did the rest. Twice a week, for instance, he had his waiters' finger nails manicured; every night before dinner he held a hand inspection. Superb cook in his own right, he was always inventing new dishes; his knowledge of wines was exact, exacting. His hobby was "romance." On account...