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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago sped Civil Aeronautics Bu-reaumen to investigate the third fatal crash on U. S. airliners since Aug. 30, after a flawless 17 months in which no airline passenger was killed. The cause of Trip 21's crash was a matter for public hearing, laboratory inspection of her engines, props and other remains. First news reports were that ice brought her down. United denied this report, pointed out that if Trip 21 was taking on ice. Pilot Scott would have reported it as airline rules prescribe, pointed out, too, that many other runs came in around the same time...
...mind behind many of the New Deal's agricultural programs. If any man did, he understood the mystic mathematics of agriculture. Few weeks ago he impressed his associates by forecasting the 1940 corn yield, hitting remarkably close to the later official estimate (2,415,988,000 bu.). This week Claude Wickard got another promotion. Henry Wallace resigned to campaign for the Vice-Presidency; Claude Wickard was nominated to be Mr. Roosevelt's second Secretary of Agriculture. Said Claude Wickard, with expected modesty: "I intend to carry out the policies of Henry A. Wallace...
With a habitual huge carry-over of wheat (this year, 288,000,000 bu.) the U. S. needs no wheat from Argentina. It needs no corn or meat grown in the fat lands of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and eastern Bolivia. Of South American metals, only tin, manganese, bauxite, platinum and vanadium could be bought by the U. S. without competition with its own economy. The U. S. could use rubber from Brazil, but Brazil's present output of rubber is negligible and it takes at least seven years for a rubber plantation to become commercially workable. Thus, several years...
Argentina had 20,000,000 bu. of surplus wheat, 300,000,000 bu. of corn, 500,000,000 Ib. of beef. Brazil had over 400,000 bales of cotton, plus her chronically astronomical coffee surplus (around 1,700,000,000 lb.). Canada had 300,000,000 bu. of wheat, and 70,000,000 lb. of pork and bacon all dressed up with no place to go. Cuba was carrying about 1,000,000 tons of sugar. Uruguay was loaded with 120,000,000 lb. of beef...
...than ever since The Netherlands and Belgium had joined them, the Allies were not to be starved so long as the Nazis would let them trade overseas. Canadian bins held enough wheat to feed the Allies for a year. Experts reckoned the U. S. would have 346,000,000 bu. of wheat, 266,352,000 Ib. of lard, 692,000,000 bu. of fodder corn in its storehouses this autumn. Last week Hoover's Committee, the Aldrich Committee, the Red Cross and Friends Service Committee were all gathering funds to feed war refugees now in France. For, whether they...