BELGIUM: Normal Now!

Le Metro, Paris subway, in which one has the choice of riding first-class or second-class, is chiefly owned by a Belgian, M. le Baron Jean Empain, a director in 80 companies, board chairman of 25, a sportive gentleman among whose friends are the famed Dolly Sisters.

"Depression?" snapped M. le Baron in Manhattan last week. "On the contrary, Messieurs, the world is just now laboring under normal conditions. We have been mad for about five years and it will take three or four years to get used to normalcy again. I repeat, this is about a normal state. We are producing...

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