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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Franklin Roosevelt addressed all the People in depressed April, he said he proposed to "sail, not drift." But not until Congress had rigged the ship of state for him and cleared the decks by going home, was Skipper Roosevelt free to kick the tiller over and square away. Last week that moment came, and with vigorous word and action Franklin Roosevelt made perfectly clear what course he had laid out: through the narrow Strait of Recovery, boldly past the storm-ridden Primary Isles, to the snug harbor of Fall Elections...
...Lend-Spend bill gave Mr. Tapp $50,000,000. On hand from previous appropriations he still had about $30,000,000. He revealed that in June, FSCC's beneficiaries had increased by 4,000,000 to a total of 11,000,000 persons receiving surplus farm products free. With his new money Mr. Tapp set out to buy & give even more generously...
...German Government has taken note with great interest that the Swiss Government has been successful in its efforts to free itself of obligations that were indeed liable to endanger its neutrality. . . . The Swiss Government can therefore be assured that its determination to remain neutral at all times will find a corresponding determination on the part of the German Government to acknowledge and respect this neutrality," wrote Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano replied in almost identical terms...
...treaty a quota is placed on the amount of some products Germany can buy in Brazil with the "compensated" marks. Early this year she used up all the compensated marks allowed for buying Brazilian cotton. She then pulled an economic trick by buying 300,000 bags of quota-free cocoa with compensated marks. Brazil can easily sell her cocoa in a free world market for good currency. By this "purchase" Germany 1) tried to flood Brazil with compensated marks so that Brazil would be forced to buy more German merchandise, 2) tried to produce a temporary world scarcity, thereby raising...
Last week, K.C.L. A-2 was uneventfully running 400 bbl. of crude a day. It has been throttled down to that figure because of California's proration agreements. In a 24-hour free test run, it yielded 3,600 bbl. Even under prorated production, it is expected to return its investment-$305,000-in three years...