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Five months ago President Roosevelt gave young (32) Nelson Rockefeller a bigger job than any he was heir to. His title: Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics. His job: to give the U. S. a better name than it had, south of the Rio Grande. That meant economic aid (to check Nazi penetration) and the active publicizing of the U. S. case (to supplant Nazi propaganda on the virtues of dictatorship...
...their own premises and announced that if necessary the Government would use compulsion to acquire an adequate number of spotters. Incendiaries, he emphasized, can be easily extinguished with sand or removed, and this work must be done by civilians in order to leave the fire brigades free to fight bigger blazes. Boy Scouts 15 and 16 years old were mobilized last week as spotters and women were also asked to join the new organization known as "Firebomb Fighters." "Fighting firebombs is dangerous work," said Morrison, "but the time is long gone by when women can be kept away from dangerous...
...world's supply of white elephants, no industry has a bigger share than the U. S. hotel industry. Though queasy strains of albinism began to appear as early as 1925, the industry continued to multiply, ended in 1933 with 85% of its properties in trouble. Today, among some 28,000 U. S. hotels, more are losing money than making it. During 1940, their average return on capital was below 1%; even this was above the average of the past ten years...
...bigger than many a big business, with property and endowments of $256,000,000, an annual budget of $49,000,000, a membership...
Born with a bigger circulation than any other Protestant journal, the first weekly issue of The Christian Advocate rolled off the presses last week. Official organ of the Methodist Church, it boasts a hefty initial subscription of over 275,000, was formed by combining seven Methodist papers following the 1939 merger of three Methodist sects into America's biggest (8,000,000 members) Protestant denomination...