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...Grand Bahama plant had been controlled by blacklisted Capitalist Axel Wenner-Gren until February 1942, when the Duke took it away from him. Worth over $1,000,000, it has an up-to-the-minute quick-freeze plant and cannery, a fleet of power-driven fishing boats, is only 60 miles' shipping distance from Palm Beach. General Foods will start operations with 300 native workers in the plant, 1,000 more as supply fishermen. Main catch will be rock lobster (crawfish); later the company will go after pompano, grouper, snapper, other tasty tropical fish. If all goes well...
...most fretful of Nehru's complaints against Gandhi have been caused by the Mahatma's support of systems Nehru believes are "obviously decaying" and which "stand as obstacles in the way of advance-the feudal states, the big zamindars (landowners) and talukdars ( land rent collectors), the present capitalist system...
...perfect army team. They drank great quantities of sake together, Itagaki growing garrulous and gay, Nishio sour and taciturn on the gently powerful wine. They shared two of the controlling passions of the Japanese army: a hatred of Communists and a companion hatred of Japan's great capitalist families (the Mitsuis, Iwasakis, Sumitomos and Yasudas) on the twin grounds that their abuses fostered Communism and that they disputed the mastery of Japan with the army. When others laid an indiscreetly heavy hand upon the princes of money, Itagaki soothed the offended financiers without in the least surrendering the army...
...into the non-aggression pact with Germany. Later Britain helped Finland against Russia. Even after Hitler's attack on Russia last year, some Britons' abhorrence of Communism led them to hope that somehow Germany and Russia would destroy each other, while Russians remained equally suspicious of their capitalist ally...
Author de Sales is a great admirer of the New Deal. But he states without alarm that "the general trend of the New Deal has been toward socialization and centralization." The question, he says, is not whether democracy can be made to work according to capitalist or socialist formulas: "the dilemma is whether a collectivist society-that is, one founded on our real possibilities of production-can be established without destroying the essential principles upon which democracy rests...