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...Western Hemisphere, in Martinique, Guadaloupe and French Guiana, where 80% of the officials were reported for De Gaulle, plebiscites were planned. In Martinique harbor lay the cruisers Emile Bertin and Jeanne d'Arc, the aircraft carrier Béarn with 130 U. S.-made airplanes aboard...
...said he, had acquired from the British Government the right to lease naval and air bases in Newfoundland. Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Antigua, British Guiana. The Newfoundland and Bermuda bases were gifts, "gratefully received." In return for the other bases, the U. S. had given England 50 overage U. S destroyers. He called it "epochal...
...print: the only known example of a one-penny postage stamp, black on magenta, printed by hand in 1856 by the stamp-starved inhabitants of British Guiana. Seller: the widow of Plush Manufacturer Arthur M. Hind of Utica, N. Y., whose husband, after World War I, is said to have bought it at auction in Paris for $32,500. Buyer: an anonymous private collector...
...founder of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels). Also a fabricator of aluminum sheet, rods, tubing and extruded shapes, Reynolds Metals imported about half of its virgin aluminum from France until war interfered, has since been a reluctant Alcoa customer. Last week, having arranged to get bauxite from Dutch Guiana, Reynolds got approval of a $15,800,000 RFC loan to build ingot smelters, probably in Alabama. Ingot smelters consume electricity the way a St. Louis bleacher crowd uses pop on a hot day. Like Alcoa's own main furnaces, for which Franklin Roosevelt signed...
...price record includes cuts in the inflated 1925-29 period, two more cuts since the suit began-the second last week by 1? a Ib. to 18?, the lowest price ever. As for the bauxite monopoly, Alcoa pointed to plenty of uncontrolled low-cost ore in Surinam (Dutch Guiana), high-cost ore in Arkansas. As for national defense, Alcoa pointed to $26,000,000 worth of plant expansion in 1937, $30,000,000 worth last year. As for the ingot monopoly, Alcoa's claim has always been that anyone was at liberty to compete, but few had ever tried...