Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This left only some $114,000 ($11,400 a year) before income taxes to support his wife and four children. Mrs. Bird frequently did her own washing and the girls sometimes scrubbed floors and cooked. Their moderate-sized house was beautifully kept, but they drove a Ford. Finally the strain got too great. Thinking the market was going up, Viggo Bird embezzled...
...could not help but appreciate the editorial from a St. Joseph newspaper that Mr. Wadlow showed me. In substance it mentioned the fact that Lindbergh could not stand the strain of the public and the publicity and, to avoid it, finally went to England where he could be more secluded. But, the editorial added, Lindbergh was not subjected to the same type of public attention that Robert Wadlow is. He (Robert) whenever in public, is gaped at, is always surrounded by people. But with all this, he maintains a pleasant and friendly disposition...
...decided to prove his point by breeding a strain of highly emotional rats, another strain of unemotional rats. His arena for testing rat emotion was a well-lighted circular enclosure about seven feet across, with a smooth linoleum floor. Since rats like nooks, crannies and darkness they found this "open field" mildly terrifying. They showed emotion by excreting. That excretion is a valid evidence of emotion is affirmed by the experiences of countless soldiers suffering extreme fear in battle, of some aviators just about to crash, by the observation of dog-owners who see their pets stop more frequently...
Inflationary and promissory plans like this have long distracted German financial experts (except Hjalmar Schacht, who controlled currency with a firm hand). Latest to crack under the strain is Reichsbank Vice President Dr. Rudolf Brinkmann, who lasted less than four weeks in office. One day just before he was sent to a sanatorium for a rest, Herr Brinkmann was feeling on top of the world. Carefully going through the personnel of the Reichsbank and picking out many of the most talented men, he called them together. He also summoned a brass band. "Play a march," he said to the band...
...engines. None of the arms factories, however, can be run without substantial imports of raw materials. All told, the Führer will get arms for about 150,000 men. The army of occupation-never expected to fall much below this figure-can thus be armed without an additional strain to the Reich...