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...German trade with England, the U. S., and Soviet Russia, but export subsidies to the extent of 30% of the value of all German exports enabled Nazi businessmen to quote speciously attractive prices to the Balkans and South America, regions with surpluses of grain, tobacco, oil, cotton, coffee and cocoa. Between debtor nations the system of subsidized barter might have worked satisfactorily enough, but the Nazis themselves were slow to deliver finished goods in return for foodstuffs and raw materials, and they frequently demoralized world markets for their suppliers by reselling coffee, tobacco, cotton, etc., at knock-down prices...
...booklet entitled Art Quiz. Helen Parker, chic, quick-witted head of the Institute's department of education, got it up and it was good. In ten sections of ten questions each were such factual stumpers as "Who painted the girl serving chocolate on a well-known brand of cocoa?"; such models of test technique as "Pick your painter: a) Linsey-Woolsey, b) 'Lippo Lippi, c) Boro Budur, d) Sancho Panza, e) Michelozzo Michelozzi"; and queries Jike...
That would please no one more than the Vargas Government, because in practice the Germans, to get foreign exchange, have ruthlessly resold in other markets the coffee and cocoa they got from Brazil by barter, depressing prices at the expense of Brazil's best cash crops. One quick effect of the deal was felt in Wall Street, where Brazilian 1941 8's jumped from...
...water will be taken in the combined form of hydrogen peroxide, one molecule of which can be very readily split up into one molecule of water and half a molecule of oxygen. . . . Water will of course be the basis of all beverages, chief amongst which will be cocoa, though a small amount of coffee might be necessary as a stimulant for navigators falling asleep over their interminable calculations. It is debatable whether some alcoholic beverage should be permitted to celebrate the landing on the moon but there will in any case be a small amount in the medicine chest...
Other reactions to peace were equally logical. Foreign bonds led a zooming bond market. Sterling jumped 13? in one day. Prices of the "war commodities"-wheat, sugar, cottonseed oil-plummeted; other commodities-rubber, silk, hides, cocoa, cotton-zoomed. Marine insurance rates on war risk for gold shipments were cut in half. Brokers resumed plans for new financing, which had sunk to the lowest September volume in three years. And with the overwhelming question of war at least postponed, U.S. businessmen returned to the question of business prospects...