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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nazis unofficially estimated the amount plucked from the Jews at about $300,000,000-a sum nearly twice as great as the total German charity collections of all kinds during the year. Nazis even admitted that, had not forced selling depressed the value of Jewish property and securities, the sums realized would probably have totaled the $400,000,000 originally demanded. Jews were informed last week that they must now "make up the difference for lost values," and Count Krosigk prepared to strip the Jewish community of about five per cent more of its wealth...
Terrible Tommy. A hero role is nothing new to Thomas Dudley Harmon. Son of a Gary, Ind. real-estate man, he entered Michigan two years ago with the reputation of being the ablest allround high-school athlete in the U. S. At Gary's Horace Mann High, he twice was named All-State quarterback, was the country's leading interscholastic football scorer (150 points) in 1936, was captain of the basketball team, pitched three no-hit, no-run games one spring, was State champion at the 100-yd. dash (9.9 sec.) and still holds the Indiana record...
Last week the monster emerged from its assembly shop for a test run on Chicago streets, found the going difficult. First it got jammed under a viaduct, later broke down twice. The front wheels had to be realigned, the throttles adjusted so that all wheels (each has a separate motor) would turn at the same speed. Finally it started out for Boston, whence the Byrd expedition is to sail, with Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, veteran Byrdman, at the controls. Dr. Poulter perforce learned to drive as he went along. At Columbia City, Ind., he had a slight collision with...
Cheerful financial news there was, last week, in September's railroad earnings report. Net income for Class 1 roads was estimated to be a swaggering $36,000,000, twice September 1937's $16,110,527, three times August's $10,053,000, six times September...
...Ever since Japan took on the Chinese war, she has been buying twice as much as she has sold to the U. S. Her import balance in U. S. trade for the first seven months of 1939 was 258,000,000 yen. To replace German imports, to get deliveries before the Allies buy the output of U. S. factories, and before the U. S.-Japan trade treaty expires next January, the Japanese have boosted their U. S. purchases by approximately one-third. That put Japan on the spot...