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...Spain, the prize War baby was Juan March, who had been born of poor peasants on the island of Majorca. Before the War, March was a small Barcelona trader who sold onions and chickens during the day and smuggled tobacco and silk by night. His smuggling flotilla came in handy as early as October of 1914, when he made a killing by cornering all available pigs on the coast of Spain and selling them to the Entente powers for a fantastic profit. Shortly his smuggling fleet had become the Compania Transmediterranea. This company supplied food to the Entente nations...
...Born. To Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, 30, and Prince Bernhard, 28, a daughter; in Amsterdam...
...last great war shows that they might as well be burned or dumped at sea, for little if any real wealth is ever received in payment for them. They are paid for only with promises to pay or with gold, which is virtually as useless, so that war-born prosperity remains an illusion. Even after the war, if debtors try to pay by shipping goods, creditors commonly lock them out by tariffs...
Married. Sigrid Gurie, 24, Brooklyn-born, Norwegian-bred cinemactress; and Laurence C. Spangard, 42, Hollywood physician ; she for the second time, he for the first; in Hollywood...
Seven years ago descendants of the owners of the old whaleship John Carver formed American Whaling Company, sent a small "floating factory" to the Australian fisheries. In 1937 testy, Danish-born Hans J. Isbrandtsen of New York City (Isbrandtsen-Moller Co., shipping), founded Western Operating Corp. with the help of Norwegian-born Texas Corp. Board Chairman "Cap" Torkild Rieber, Danish-born General Motors President William S. Knudsen and others. For nearly $1,000,000 he bought the 12, 395-ton former U. S. Navy auxiliary ship Ulysses, converted it into one of the most modern whale refineries afloat and dispatched...