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This machine failed to set the walnut industry afire, but attracted the attention of the beet-sugar people. The U.S. Beet Sugar Assn. (western processors) put Professor Bainer in charge of a $100,000 study of beet-growing methods...
...Toryism asks Britons to entrust their future, as they had entrusted their great past, to individualism and private enterprise. Last week Tory Oliver Lyttelton, onetime metals magnate and now Minister of Production, told the Aldershot Conservative Assn.: "The great periods of our history were nearly always associated with an outstanding individual and not with a political system. We think of Queen Elizabeth, and Sir Francis Drake, or Marlborough, Pitt and Nelson and of the Duke of Wellington; and it is on the ability to keep alive the spirit of adventure and to inject into public opinion new, fanciful and unorthodox...
...wartime criminal law gave the Imperial Rule Assistance Assn. (Japan's two-year-old totalitarian party) apparently unlimited powers to suppress criticism of the Government...
Coal pays 40-55? per ton water freight, and if they lose that, most independent shipping companies may show a loss. No ore rates for this season have yet been set, but tall, dapper Alexander Thomas Wood, president of the Lake Carriers Assn., last week started rate negotiations in Washington...
Same week, members of the National Retail Dry Goods Assn. gathered in Manhattan for their 31st annual meeting, 6,000 strong, to discuss wartime retail problems. They knew their record 1941 prosperity was not likely to last out 1942. They had been on a sort of spree themselves, selling the fat off a nation long pouchy with surpluses. Their 1942 problems: 1) to find enough goods to sell; 2) not to be caught overstocked by a reaction when hoarders go home sated, or when other consumers are kept home by higher prices and taxes...