Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from reparations days, when France and Belgium pinched the best of its equipment, German State Railways was in critical condition when Germany annexed Austria and threw on its back the burden of the dilapidated Austrian Federal Railways. On some of the hopelessly debt-burdened Austrian lines wood-burners were still being used...
...parents of some 26,000,000 U. S. public school children the all-important question as they send their youngsters to school each term is: Who will his teacher be? Parents well know that whether a school is Progressive or Traditional, palace or shack, a good teacher is still a good teacher and a poor one a menace to their children. To conscientious educators, who are everlastingly amazed that the same parents who insist on a fully qualified doctor will gamble on a teacher, improving the quality of the 1,000,000 U. S. teachers is the nation...
...even more violently anti-Nazi than her father. A trip to Russia, on which she never once removed her rose-colored spectacles, confirmed her in the anti-faith. She describes horrific tortures inflicted on concentration-camp prisoners ("a few I know of directly"), thinks "there is still a good deal of organized opposition among the people in Germany...
Quietly, persistently, depositors appeared at the bank's main office and five branches, demanded their money. In three days the bank dished out $2,179,280. N. J. Title Guarantee & Trust still had over a million in cash on hand, but it did not open for business again. With $21,500,000 in deposits still on its books, it was the biggest bank failure in five years. Reason: under Boss Frank Hague, Jersey City's tax rate on real estate is the highest in the U. S. and the bank's assets were frozen with...
...little over a decade the Oregon Trail carried "the greatest migration in history since the Children of Israel went to the Promised Land." In fiction, the old Oregon Trail is still well plodded. But far fewer novels than pioneers have come through alive. Outstanding survivor was H. L. Davis' Honey in the Horn. Archie Binns's The Land Is Bright is another...