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The article focuses on the plan to license the "Aero-Hydro" paper process developed by engineer H. Scherbak to American paper manufacturers. It states that Russia and Germany have the exclusive rights on the process because Scherbak communicated with the countries for the manufacture of the process. It says that changes which would suit the process in paper machines are inexpensive. It adds that resistance to acids can be added to the process if it will be changed into the manufacture line.

This article presents information about political developments around the world during the week as of February 22, 1917. Berlin's figures for submarine sinkings began by agreeing with Lloyd's figures, but have since steadily diverged. What appears to be an effort to impose new German war taxes, sufficient to cover annual interest on the war debt, is reported from Berlin through Amsterdam. The request of the news-print manufacturers that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission fix the prices of paper during the period from March 1 to September 1 is, perhaps, the logical outcome of the activities of that the commission during the last eight months.

The article discusses economic trends in Europe as of January 1920. It reports a decrease in the ratio of gold reserves to bank notes in Germany and an increase in paper money in Great Britain. It offers a background on importing activities and balance of trade in the region. A chart showing inflation and foreign exchange rates is also presented.

This section offers world news briefs. The resignation of Walter Ulbricht as president of the Communist Party in East Germany is seen as a positive sign for East-West relations, although his successor Erich Honecker is a strict Marxist. A decision is made by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission not to interfere in the merger of paper companies in the Pacific Northwest because of the dominance of imports from Canada.

This article presents a table that shows the ratio of gold to currency notes in the principal countries of the world. It may be noted in this connection that since 1914 world paper currency has increased 600 percent, and the gold reserve only 40 percent, while the world national debts have grown from 40 billion to 260 billion since 1914. The face value of the paper currency of thirty leading countries was 7,250 million in 1914, 40,000 million in November 1918 and 50,000 million in December 1919. The Gold Reserve in the U.S. was 1,023 million in 1914 and 2,107 million in December 1919.

This article reports on the launch of a scheme of radical finance reform by Herr Rudolf Hilferding, Minister of Finance for the Reich of Germany in 1923. Under the scheme, the Reichsbank will be the only source of issue for paper currency. The scheme will require real-value notes to be secured by a real-value capital levy. Meanwhile, the police in Berlin started a search for foreign currency.

This article focuses on the political developments published in the foreign press. At the session of press representatives at the Ministry of Trade and Commerce, Germany, Comrade Marut read a plan for the socialization of the press, whose most important points are all papers circulate in the city where they appear by authority of this decree. The city reserves no right of tutelage over the newspapers. The city has no right to exercise disciplinary powers over any newspaper employee. But the city insures every newspaper employee his stipulated income.

A few minutes after Congress declared war against Germany and Italy, WRUL in Boston, WGY in Schenectady, and BBC in London flashed the word to the occupied countries by short-wave radio. These powerful illegal radios rebroadcast the news to hundreds of mobile stations throughout the Continent. Special editions of newspapers, pamphlets, news sheets, letters, and slogans soon flooded the countryside. From the underground press the Allies obtain strategic information, military and civilian, that could not be obtained in any other way. As the war lengthens, as suffering increases, nationalistic differences are breaking down more and more into the realization that democracy, mutual aid, and cooperation are essentials for any future peaceful Europe. This is the basic principle of Europe's underground press.

Focuses on the Disarmament Conference which was held in Geneva, Switzerland. Information that the conference gives Germany the theoretical equality of armament with the other Great Powers; View that the conference aim to impress the United States that Europe really is setting its house in order and is therefore entitled to drastic reduction or cancellation of the war debts; Claim that despite the seeming evidence to the contrary, the statesmen assembled at Geneva are not a pack of simpletons.

The article focuses on the reestablishment of Germany's merchant marine after World War I. Early financing of the merchant marine by the German government and the shipping companies themselves is examined. Details related to the policies of German shipping companies concerning joint operations between German and foreign companies, especially American shipping companies, are discussed. Comparisons are made of the capabilities of the German merchant marine before and after World War I, and the improvements upon operation made by companies such as the Hamburg-American Line are presented.

The article discusses the foreign currency and commercial paper paid out by the Reichsbank and the Ministry of Finance in Germany for reparation purposes. The author gives an overview of the London schedule of payments for German reparations, and the problems it caused for Germany's exporting business and the valuation of its currency. He then points out that after the payment schedule was made, the German government slacked on its reparation payments, even though they were adequately collected by the Reichsbank on exports as stipulated. Information on how this affected American trade with Europe is included.

The article focuses on the significance of founding the "Jewish Weekly" by Karl Marx in 1946 and its contributions to politics in Germany. It states that the paper has played a major role in shaping policies of the country and has also served as the undisputed voice of the diminished Jewish population. The relevance of the paper on the speculation of the press concerning the appointment of Kurt Georg Kiesinger, who is a close and trusted friend of Marx, as German chancellor is explained.

The article offers information on the increasingly changing attitude of people towards sex and pornography, in West Germany and reports on the success of two pornographic journals "St.Pauli Nachrichten" and "St.Pauli Zeitung" amid the sex wave in the country. Reportedly, the scene is changing so rapidly that Nachrichten swelled from a press run of 10,000 to a twice-monthly paper with a circulation of 700,000 including 3,000 subscribers from as far as South Africa and Australia.

The article presents information about the meeting of the American Historical Association at Cincinnati, Ohio during December 27-30, 1917. The array of papers and conferences offered at the Cincinnati meeting was exceptionally rich and varied. Professor Albert T. Olmstead, of the University of Missouri, in a paper before the ancient history section on Mesopotamian politics and scholarship, called attention to the success of French and German archaeological investigators, backed by their respective governments, in appropriating the Mesopotamian field, while reprobating the German policy of removing to Berlin many important finds. In addition to sessions for the presentation of formal papers, provision was made, as in former years, for a number of conferences for the discussion of special historical activities.

The article reports on the status of international trade relations among the U.S., Russia and Germany. Russian purchasing of U.S. products have declined by 55 percent, while Russian sales in the U.S. dropped by 34 percent. Germany has notified local manufacturers that it is unable to continue the country's 70 percent export guaranty scheme for the Russian order. Despite the internal financial problems of Germany, the Reichsbank decided to rediscount Soviet paper up to 36 million U.S. dollars.

The article offers information on the business achievement and corporate establishments of German industrialist Friedrich Flick as the most powerful industrialist and richest man in Germany. It outlines the business performance of Flick's four pillars including Maximilianshuette, Suedwestfalen and Buderus, Daimler-Benz AG for automobiles, Feldmuele as paper company and Dynamit Nobel as explosive maker. Also presented is the corporate executives of Flick helping him to achieve modern management.

The article reports that war-born German developments have provided a technical boost and opened vast prospects for the U.S. acetylene industry. Germany made use of acetylene in the absence of normal supply sources for petroleum. Walter Reppe, director of research for I.G. Farbenindustrie AG, found the use of acetylene as the organic building material for synthetic rubber, synthetic lubricants, plastics, adhesives, and textile finishes.

This article discusses economic effects of the Paris Resolution. The Bureau of the League of Nations estimates the average income in Germany at about 3,900 marks paper, as against about 3,200 francs in France. An additional charge of 1,000 marks paper would raise the proportion of charges in Germany to 41 per cent of the average income, as against 12.2 per cent in France, without taking into account the additional 12 per cent of the exports, but considering only the annuity. The balance remaining for living expenses would therefore be about 2,300 marks paper annually in Germany, 2,810 francs, i.e., about 11,800 marks paper in France.

The article reports on the social and political developments in the world during 1923. Gustav Stresemann, the Chancellor of Germany has determined upon complete and unconditional surrender to the French demand for abandonment of passive resistance in the Ruhr, Germany. New York without its customary newspapers was a curious sight to those accustomed to the solid rows of papers that usually hide men's faces in the subways and on the elevated. It was a revelation of the function of the modern daily newspaper, to supply unreal entertainment as a relief from real monotony.

The article reports on the move of U.S. President John Kennedy whose total occupation was turning toward action not only for Berlin but for the whole world. It states that after last-minute revisions, the president will answer to Nikita Khrushchev's last-month memorandum on Berlin. Additionally, the State Department will release a White Paper on Berlin to further justify the Western stand and then, Kennedy will also summon congressional leaders to brief them on U.S. plans.

This section offers news briefs related to businesses outside the U.S. as of September 1937. Exporters in Germany fear drastic decline in their performance since an outbreak of hostilities in Shanghai, China was reported. Businesses in London, England expect an improvement in their income despite the increased materials costs during the year. The Russian government launched a program which aims to promote the daily production of several commodities like coal, steel and oil.

The article discusses color lithography and offers techniques for artists on that medium. A brief background on lithography, which was invented in Germany by Aloys Senefelder in 1798, is provided. A photograph of the author's color lithograph titled "View From Battersea Bridge" is presented. According to the author, planning a color print starts by composing a complete color sketch on paper. She recommends working from hard to soft crayons which are available in stick and pencil form.

The article presents information on the Third International Congress of Psychology. The third congress was held at Munich, Germany during August 4-9, 1896. The congress witnessed the greatest gathering of eminent psychologists ever seen. As to France, the attendance was disappointing in numbers, although the delegation was very representative; and the same is true of the British contingent. The other countries, except the U.S., were adequately represented. In the higher fields of Ethics and Anthropology interesting papers were presented.

The article features publisher Axel C. Springer who aims to enter the publishing industry in Berlin, Germany through the publication of his periodicals. It states that Springer owns the right of three daily newspapers in Berlin and two Sunday papers which circulates over five million copies. It mentions that Springer operates the publication of five magazines which circulation had totaled to 4,680,000. Moreover, it adds that the periodicals of Springer present various topics such as politics.

After the author was forced out of the editorship of the Ullstein Berliner Zeitung am Mittag in December, 1931, the author served as American correspondent for the Ullstein papers for a year. On January 4, 1933, the author returned to Germany and became editor of the daily "12 Uhr Blatt" and the weekly "Montag Morgen," both smaller left-democratic journals. As it happened, the author started to work on January 30, the day the German dictator Adolf Hitler came into power. The very first news item laid on the author's desk was a solemn declaration that in the Third Reich the freedom of the press would be inviolate.

The article discusses the business of privately owned industrial conglomerate Friedrich Flick KG, which includes auto and truck producer Daimler-Benz, locomotives and iron castings producer Buderus group,and chemicals producer Dynamit Nobel in West Germany as of February 1, 1969. Topics include secrecy as part of the development strategy of the company's founder Friedrich Flick, data on the history of the company, and the acquisition of paper producer Feldmühle.

The year 1923 will go down in the history of Germany as a year of terrible hardship and bitter disillusionment, not only for the "working class," but also for the major part of the intellectual and middle classes. Whatever comfort and subsistence were left them by the inflation were taken away by the unemployment of a third of the industrial workers of the nation. Since the war and especially during the last year or two the agricultural class in Germany has been growing stupendously rich. The rapid depreciation of the mark affected some of the more ignorant farmers unfavorably, because they could not easily rid themselves of the notion that "money" was "money," to be hoarded, but in time they too learned about the worthlessness of the paper mark and refused to have anything to do with it.

This article presents information regarding political developments in the U.S. and the world. It takes bloodshed to put Germany on the front page now. Mere unemployment, mere starvation, mere food riots are old stories. But the process of degeneration continues, and French Prime Minister Raymond Poincare still betrays no hint of readiness to discuss matters on a common-sense basis. The French papers do indeed show a glimmering recognition of the fact that military victory has its limitations. British Prime Minister Lloyd George tour is not to include Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, or the Falkland Islands, so the inhabitants of those various sections of the British Empire will have to miss, for the present, the exhilarating assurance, on the highest of all authorities, that the assistance they rendered at a critical moment saved civilization.

The article reports that the mistake made by the Army's Stars and Stripes in Germany in the middle initial of Lieutenant Colonel Richard F. Whitcomb, who was convicted of plundering a requisitioned house, has grown out of proportion by the media. Some of the issues published about Whitcomb include the discrepancy in his home town and his candidacy for the Republican gubernatorial election in 1938. After Whitcomb clarified the issue, a jury awarded him 65,000 U.S. dollars for the lawsuits he filed against newspapers that published the stories about him.

Focuses on the printing of a cartoon picturing Mars with a satisfied smile on his lips, lighting a cigar with the peace treaty release at the time of the announcement of the peace terms with Germany. Suitability of the caricature with opinion of the people on the treaty; Views on the impact of the treaty with imperialism in Germany; Standpoints of other publications to the League of Nations.

The article focuses on the recommendation by German High Commissioner to sell the daily periodical "Die Welt" to publisher Axel C. Springer for an estimated 1 million U.S. dollars in the week of May 1953. It was noted that some Germans have expressed concern over the potential political power that the publisher may gain as he currently owns two newspapers and three magazines. Alsos stated is the plan of Springer to expand his power by acquiring two more periodicals.

This article focuses on the book "Trade Fallacies," by Arthur Kitson. Kitson asks why the Allies have so completely failed to employ the psychological factor against the enemy, while the enemy has employed it in neutral countries with such skill and success against the Allies. What interests the reader most is the financial factor, to which Kitson devotes his second chapter. He appears to be full of admiration for the German way of financing the situation created by the First World War. Kitson assumes that if a nation has no commercial relations with the outside world it has nothing to fear from an expansive paper currency.