The book of the fair; an historical and descriptive presentation of the world's science, art, and industry, as viewed through the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 (1893)
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918 · Chicago, San Francisco, The Bancroft Co. · leaf 172
THE BOOK OF THE FAIR 369 … GERMAN SECTION has been enabled to pay almost without apparent effort, the $200,000,000 of her war indem¬ nity, to sink nearly twice that amount in the Panama canal project, and pay as interest and sinking fund some $260,000,000 on her $6,500,000,000 of national debt. France and her colonies occupy…
