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...print as a barking, brawling, screaming propaganda maniac. Actually the Minister for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment is one of the great political orators of this century. He opens suavely, is restrained most of the time, mellifluent, knows how to whip a point over with the sting of humor, a trifle crude at times?or very crude if Dr. Goebbels is radiorating to the masses...
...record as a trouble shooter and a trouble shooter was what U. S. Rubber needed in 1929. This biggest unit in the industry had been internally unsound when the Du Fonts bought into it in 1927 and 1928. Francis Davis, diagnosed its troubles as twofold: the general collapse of crude-rubber prices that began in 1925 and the individual collapse of U. S. Rubber, suffering from obesity...
While in Burma, the party discovered traces of a civilization totally different from Europe's first signs of man in the lower-Paleolithic age. Whereas the cave men of the primeval western world fashioned fairly useful implements, the early Burmese peoples had extremely crude contrivances with which to secure their food and protect themselves. When the geologists examined chipped rocks in the gravel of the Irrawaddy Valley, they had great difficulty determining whether natural or whether human forces had been at work...
Training Wreckers. The Chinese guerrillas, largely operating in Shansi, Hopeh and Shantung Provinces, are loosely organized into a "People's Self-Defense Army." Crude village arsenals make their grenades, bullets and broadswords, but much of their ammunition is unwillingly furnished by the Japanese. Clad in green cotton uniforms enabling them to melt into the countryside after a daylight raid, the guerrillas are taught to wreck Japanese troop and supply trains, ambush food convoys and attack isolated Japanese garrisons...
...Huge inventories of refined products last month forced widespread crude oil price cuts...