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...competitors' price cut to 10?. Last week poker-playing Gates showed that he believes in flexible prices-on the up side. He posted a price of 12½?, panicked consumers to come back into the market for more inventory. Reluctantly Kennecott and Anaconda, both with lower costs han Phelps Dodge, followed the price up, while frightened consumers bought still more. Small copper fabricators, worried, ike small steelmen, about the rising price and shortened supplies of their raw material, began to exert political pressure on Washington to halve the 4? a pound copper tariff, in order to unfix the copper...
...Other "Big Three" members: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the late Hu Han-min, longtime chief secretary...
Most Chinese pictures concern contemporary domestic life, contain a derby-&-mustache stock character derived from Charlie Chaplin. Sable Cicada, however, is a $125,000 superproduction about doings of the Han dynasty in the Third Century...
Taking their cue from the Premier's plea, the Executive Council made the first sacrifice, a decision not to send a Chinese exhibition to New York's 1939 World's Fair because of the "uncertainties of transportation." The supreme sacrifice was made by General Yu Han-mou, charged with the collapse of Canton's defenses, who was erroneously reported to have surrendered to the Japanese after the city's fall. According to Japanese reports, he was executed by the Chinese...
...army columns belatedly arrived in Hankow last week the army commanders decided to use buildings in the refugee zone as troop billets and Father Jacquinot, after spending thousands of dollars of relief money, was ordered out. A new zone was established in the Chinese native sector on the Han River...