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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armistice. There are three reasons: 1) Nationalist and pro-French agitation before the War kept Germany from developing Rhine traffic at Strasbourg; under the French booming Strasbourg now ships over 5,000,000 tons of freight a year. 2) Under Germany Strasbourg breweries and Alsatian wines were practically unknown because of Bavarian and Rheingau competition: contrariwise. Strasbourg beer is now the best in France and her ten breweries pay dividends of 20% to 30%. 3) Adolf Hitler. Strasbourg's prosperity does not entirely cover the province. Wool-weaving, cotton-spinning Mulhouse is as badly...
...chairman of Amalgamated Sugar. Financial writers immediately guessed that Great Western was reaching out for control of American Beet, whose stock capitalization is only 406,000 shares. This Claude Boettcher denied, claiming that his holdings in American Beet were purely on his personal account. But the fact remained that, unknown to the public, Claude Boettcher had increased his holdings in American Beet to the point where he could step in at the top of its biggest subsidiary. He supplants gaunt, white-haired Anthony Woodward Ivins, first counselor of the Mormon Church, who will remain as president of Amalgamated although most...
...Nashville, Tenn. grocery counter walked an unknown man. He looked down at the penny-candy showcase, at the orange jelly stars, at foot-long black ropes of licorice, at mauve-brown tootsie rolls, at chocolate bottles of syrupy liqueurs, at inch-square cubes of yellow honeycombed sponge molasses. The man sighed, cleared his voice huskily: "Thirty-five years ago I stole two of your penny candies. It's been bothering me ever since. This is the least my conscience will let me give you.'' He laid a $5 bill on the counter, walked away...
...companion piece to "We Live on Relief" in April Scribner's there is an article by an anonymous woman writer entitled "Does the World Owe Me a Living?" More than a description of how the other half lives this article is a revelation of a mode of thinking unknown by those happy with luxuries and oblivious to the sufferings of persons condemned to poverty through no fault of their...
...HISTORY OF EXPLORATION-Sir Percy Sykes-Macmillan ($7). Who first went exploring purely in search of knowledge is unknown. Merchant-explorers more than three millennia before Christ were the Sumerians, whose high civilization glimmered before history's dawn. Exploration was a by-product of trade and conquest for the Assyrians, the Minoans of Crete, the Phoenicians, the Greeks. Anaximander of Miletus (Sixth Century B. C.) drew up the earliest known map of the world, which he regarded as a cross-section of a great cylinder hanging from the heavens. A generation later Hecataeus wrote Periodos, the first known book...