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Despite Der Reichsführer's confident Motor Show oration, Nazi economic policy, now managed by "Economic Dictator" Dr. Hjalmar Schacht stood revealed last week as bankrupt on the showing of Germany's latest official trade statistics. With Dr. Schacht puffing and straining to swell exports, they collapsed in January to a record low volume for the Century, excepting the War and inflation periods. With Dr. Schacht wrenching and squeezing to strangle imports, they swelled last month to the highest figure in three years. The Fatherland's trade deficit for January, 104,900,000 marks, was worst...
...around Shantung and into the Yellow Sea the Sheng An clanked steadily in the swell of a monsoon. Captain Vikhmann regaled Captain Taudien and his friends with vodka, smoked salmon, caviar. The Russian captain slept mostly with the first mate's Latvian wife but nobody seemed to mind, least of all First Mate Nicholas Azariev, hospitable and easy going. Finally one night when the Sheng An was 200 miles off Shanghai, the Germans and the Swiss went to work...
...around the city for a few hours. Walk into the Mayflower Hotel with me, and be jostled by a delegate of the American Historical Association Convention, or the more provincial delegate from a national convention of undertakers who thinks that "the new Supreme Court Building would make a swell funeral parlor...
...cost the Government began to transport plaster, mortar, bricks from the North. Slowly on 25-acre Garden Key rose Fort Jefferson-barracks for six companies, 18 sets of officers' quarters, a hospital, a chapel-all surrounded by a huge wall jutting with bastions. It was a sight to swell every U. S. heart. But as time passed its Army builders began to ask: What use was the fortress? Finding no answer, they quietly left the great pile unmanned and unarmed, went about other business...
From pictures made at the Harvard Observatory, it seems that the star first began to swell at or soon after November 1. At first the swelling was probably slow, but by the middle of December the star was blowing up at the rate of more than a hundred miles a second in all directions like an inflating balloon...