Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Master of PWA made a fine witness in his own behalf. He could report that, after allotting before last January 1 all the $965,000,000 given him for fiscal 1939, he still had on hand 2,800 projects approved as feasible and suitable for PWA to undertake. He could report that of all the hundreds of millions loaned by PWA to States and municipalities, only $5,000,000 or 4/5% had been defaulted. Meantime, PWA had made $12,000,000 by selling at premium local bonds put up as loan collateral. Better than 80% of all bond issues proposed...
Governor Dickinson is a Republican and a Methodist. Each Sunday at the Center Eaton Methodist Church near his home town, Charlotte, he still teaches a Bible Class. Dry and anti-tobacconist, he was elected Michigan's Lieutenant Governor seven times, presided over the State Senate in decent obscurity. Then last March conservative Republican Governor Frank Fitzgerald died and Luren Dickinson succeeded him. In the past three months he has given Michigan its godliest and goofiest government...
...last week their pleasure at the temporary rebuff France and Britain got in Moscow. In London and Paris, it was said, Foreign Commissar Molotov's speech (and his note rejecting the British proposals which followed it) was a "disappointment," but they would try, try again. Apparently they were still trying as the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Cabinet with the approval of the French Cabinet, batted the ball back to the Russians, decided that offers of guarantees to Latvia, Estonia & Finland would be made only if those States asked for them, waited for the Kremlin to return...
...September General Marie Gustave Gamelin, France's Chief of Staff, assured his Government that he could roll his men through the unfinished German Siegfried (or Limes) Line like marmalade. Both the German army and the Limes are stronger now, but as of June 1939 the French army is still the strongest all-around fighting machine in Europe...
...Although experts dispute its exact size the German air force is still the biggest and best in Europe. Major George Fielding Eliot in his new book, Bombs Bursting in Air* estimates it at 4,000 first line planes, 4,000 in a first-line reserve, 2,500 in a second-line reserve, and a war-time replacement manufacturing capacity of 1,000 a month...