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Last week the great wheel of war and the little white ball of sanctions had only begun to whirl in opposite directions. The diplomatic croupiers of Europe's green tables were fingering below the cloth and there were plenty of buttons, pressure on which could make the wheel and ball "behave." To Paris from London again crossed last week minor Croupier Maurice Peterson, chief of the Ethiopian section of the British Foreign Office, to dicker further with his French colleague, minor Croupier Count Rene de Saint-Quentin. They have been in substantial agreement for weeks on a formula...
With three weeks of seagoing fun aboard the Houston behind him, the President went to Charleston's grimy old railroad station, boarded his Atlantic Coast Line special for Washington. Shus-sh! hissed the engine. Then shushushushushushs and the train rolled out of the shed in a whirl of smoke. Suddenly there was a great grinding of brakes. The train stopped. A detail of Secret Servants dropped off the cars, ran back through the agitated crowd. Rushing toward the detectives was a squad of sailors, carrying between them a large box. Quickly and mysteriously it was thrown aboard the train...
...year has passed since my CCC days, and I am back into the whirl of city life again a job . . . nights at the University . . . and I have nothing but extremely pleasant memories of the Civilian Conservation Corps. "The March of TIME" helped me to live those "dollar-a-day" days over again. ROBERT F. CASEMORE Dearborn, Mich...
...Sorzano began behaving as if peace were as good as sealed, announced a "postwar reconstruction program'' to be featured by borrowing, if possible, $25,000,000. This will be spent tapping Bolivia's two-mile-high Lake Titicaca and using the water thus obtained to drive turbines which will whirl dynamos to supply current for the grandiose project of "electrifying all our railroads." Surplus water, according to the President, will be used for vast irrigation projects. The work is to be done by enigmatic Mauricio Hochschild, head of South America's active Hochschild Engineering Co. Last week the company...
...tides of the Bay of Fundy at Passamaquoddy, Me. They declared that Maine's remote northern tip offered no market for the vast amounts of power which would result, that necessary power could be produced more cheaply from coal. But. when Maine was preparing to whirl its political weather vane last summer, President Roosevelt expressed renewed interest in Passama quoddy, Secretary Ickes visited the site. Maine swung to the Democrats and last week got $10,000,000 for Passamaquoddy...