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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thrifty Netherlanders own some $6,000,000,000 in gold, foreign exchange, foreign and colonial securities. But wily Dutch bankers have taken such precautions that scarcely a penny of the rich loot could fall into German hands. All but 5% of their gold is deposited in the U. S., England, South Africa...
...permanent prisons where Communist agitators, homosexuals, disgraced Nazis, Jewish university professors, Protestant conscientious objectors are thrown together in common cells. They wear coarse, striped uniforms, their heads are cropped, they shave only once weekly. The Jews wear yellow badges and the homosexuals pink, and few steps are taken to prevent Jewish adolescents from being attacked or molested...
...years, to many an out-of-the-way corner of the seas. She is the Royal Research Ship Research, a trim 770-ton brigantine. Chief job of naval and civilian scientists, to be quartered in her midships, will be to chart magnetic variations, compare their readings with those taken by the Carnegie Institution's Carnegie before she blew up while taking on gasoline in Apia, Samoa...
...made his chart of variations, A.D. 1700, the variation in England has changed by more than 37°. Seaman-scientists of the Research are not sure they will discover the reason for the annual changes. But they will determine the amount of change by comparing their readings with those taken by the Carnegie more than ten years...
...doubt that "the mechanical brush" is capable of a wide range of artistic effects. Artist Berdecio works with an air-compressing machine and a spray gun of the common industrial type (same principle as an atomizer), using not ordinary Duco enamel but a similar nitrocellulose paint. It has taken him six years, since he first started work with Siqueiros in Mexico City, to train his trigger finger to its present control. Painted on pressed wood, his two mural Portraits of New York were full of refined detail, though somewhat lifeless in color and very stark in symbolism. Each embodied...