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...July 1937 was $699,000,000. Of this, $252,000,000 was in tea, coffee, rub ber, silk, bananas and other items noncompetitive with U. S. products; $141,000,000 was in imports required to supplement items affected by the 1935-36 drought-corn, wheat, barley, fodder, butter, etc. But these imports, Mr. Hull can show conclusively, did not displace U. S. farm products; they supplemented the U. S. supply, prevented a shortage. Further, they came in because farm prices were high, and their only effect on domestic prices was to check a rise to famine levels, thus benefiting...
Great Britain last week made two more demonstrations of Empire solidarity against Hitlerism. The first troops from India arrived in a British-held sector of the French front: an all-Moslem contingent of about 200 with their own cooks, water carriers, religious teachers, food-rice, turmeric, ginger, ghi (clarified butter). British supply officers set out to buy livestock, chiefly goats, for the Moslems to slaughter in their own pure...
Victor Emmanuel, unlike the Byllesby interests, believes that butter is better than cannon in dealing with the New Deal. Fortnight ago, he hired a new president for Standard, white-haired, McNuttish-looking Leo Thomas Crowley, since 1934 chairman of FDIC. He hired Mr. Crowley through Washington's No. i Big Money employment office, Jesse Jones's RFC, the same office which placed Mr. Crowley's FDIC predecessor, Jones Protege Walter Cummings (TIME, Nov. 27), who heads Chicago's huge Continental Illinois Bank...
...opera has been Milton Cross's job, hobby, and spiritual sustainer for more years than NBC has been a patron. As a boy, vacationing from his Hell's Kitchen Manhattan neighborhood, he fought for the job of delivering butter to the great Louise Homer's country house, just for the exquisite thrill of seeing the great Homer herself. Once he paid to carry a spear in a Metropolitan mob scene. He studied at the Damrosch Institute of Musical Art, sang in choirs, doodled clefs & staffs on tablecloths and phone pads and dreamed of a career in music...
...Death kept at bay in an apple tree. When Osborn's Morning's at Seven opened last week, many more critical thumbs went down than hats went up. All the same, Morning's at Seven is as much better than On Borrowed Time as butter is than margarine...