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Besides enlarging their foreign markets, especially those in France, Spain and Holland, Americans may conceivably regain some direct access to Britain once the war is over. Indeed, despite the present blockade imposed by London, substantial clandestine British-American trade is going on even now. This flows mostly through Amsterdam and the West Indies, particularly the Dutch island of St. Eustatius, which is taking advantage of its unexpected role as go-between to become the busiest port in the world, with more than 250 ships arriving each week...
...committee's contract has been assigned to his own trading house of Willing & Morris. The committee offers American tobacco, lumber, rice, flour and other products in exchange for European gunpowder and other war supplies. The northern colonies usually ship their goods directly to European ports, principally Amsterdam, Nantes and Bilbao; the southern colonies make their exchanges through Dutch, Spanish and French ports in the West Indies...
...time (as late as 1960) when the first rule impressed upon Baltimore Sun police reporters was: if it happened to blacks it isn't news. The Chicago Defender, when it was a weekly, once had a circulation that topped 200,000; New York City's Amsterdam News had 100,000-figures that far exceeded today...
...black press no longer can hire and keep the best black talent, which is now keenly sought by white editors. The Chicago Defender pays beginning reporters $164 per week; the Chicago Tribune $288. "Young journalists use us as a training ground," says John Procope, publisher of Amsterdam News. Nor is the black press the sole voice for the black community, which until the '60s it was. Metropolitan dailies now cover some stories of special interest to blacks, as do local television stations. Moreover, the black press has largely abandoned its protest rationale of almost 150 years (the first black...
...Amsterdam News (circ. 66,000) is the largest nonreligious black weekly (the Muslim Bilalian News, formerly Muhammad Speaks, claims a circulation of 583,000). For most of its 67 years, the Amsterdam News has catered to the middle-class aspirations of Harlem's business and professional people. It is sold 90% on the newsstand, and its blazing red front-page headlines stress crime and gossip. But the rest of its news comes in quieter hues: close attention to black politics, knowledgeable reviews of black art, music and books, a World of Work page that offers stories on the movements...