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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that they wanted a base for getting oil across Mexico, in order to avoid the uncertainties and tolls of the sea voyage via the Canal. Some oil for Japan was already being transported across Mexico by rail. Last week Mexicans tried to borrow money in the U. S. to expand rail lines leading across Mexico's throat to Salina Cruz from single to triple track. A Japanese dream is of an eventual pipeline...
...tell you gentlemen that the powder question was awfully late in getting started. . . ." Last week Army men murmured that Franklin Roosevelt caused some of the delay by holding up contracts for new munitions plants. The Navy meantime allotted $96,000,000 to 15 ship and naval armor makers, to expand their production facilities...
...glass makers, who six months ago would have settled for shutting the door on Japan's "dumping" ($3,533,000 last year) in the U. S., last week wondered about Japan's $658,000 market in the rest of this hemisphere, wondered if they might have to expand to supply it. Last week U. S. clothing manufacturers, fearful that the good-neighbor policy might divert rayon, woolen & cotton textiles to Latin America, began to clamor for speedier delivery from the overworked mills...
When I left Russia in the spring of 1937, the Soviet cotton officials told me that they estimated the 1936 cotton crop at a little over 3,000,000 bales. They added that they hoped to be able to expand their production to around 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 bales annually, which would just about take care of their domestic needs. They explained that 6,000,000 acres is about all the land the Soviet Union has that is suitable for cotton culture, and they hoped ultimately to bring their average yield up to about a bale...
...maintain the Wagner Labor Relations Act and the Wage-Hour law; to expand the Social Security Act; to give a place in the Cabinet to the Northwest; to continue soil conservation, commodity loans, rural electrification, farm credit, crop insurance; call a national conference of farm, labor and industry to plan national prosperity; to revise and make more equitable the tax laws; to maintain for the people the gains made toward public power; to provide jobs for every man & woman in the U. S. willing to work; to continue giving relief to all who cannot find work...