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...preachers of "integration" want abolished. The Germans sell their Ruhr coal to French steelmakers at a price up to 30% higher than the coal price for domestic German buyers. The French sell their Lorraine iron ore to German steelmakers at far higher prices than they charge at home. Tariffs, import quotas and government subsidies further protect the French steel industry from competition by lower-priced German steel, keep prices high, markets divided and output lower than it should...
...Export-import Bank yesterday announced approval of a $125,000,000 loan to a group of banks in Argentina...
Cyril Ritchard, an import from England, who plays Sparkish the fop, achieves a success of a different kind. Sparkish could turn out no more than a fop, an elaborately dressed, self-conscious waver of lace handkerchiefs, but Mr. Ritchard manages by his impressive diction and equally impressive frame to give real color to Wycherley's essentially colorless character. His Sparkish is an excellent example of how a really fine actor can make something out of almost nothing...
...lush Williams campus nestles in the Berkshires, and the visitor gets a feeling of complete isolation there. On House Party Weekend--most sensational social event of the year--the Willies really go to town. They break out large numbers of water pistols, were all kinds of collegiate garb, and import many good looking women, who also man water pistols and run around in white shirts to boot. Before and after the game, the lacrosse players speed to and fro in fast motor cars, many of them new convertibles. In the Williams milieu, the frat house is paramount at all times...
Like canny traders trying to decide how much to invest in a likely stock, experts from the Department of State and the Export-Import Bank wrangled over a proposed Argentine loan last week. State recommended a credit of $125 million, so that Argentina could fund her commercial debts and begin buying badly needed U.S. farm machinery. The Ex-Im negotiators, not entirely convinced that Argentina could handle and pay back a loan of that size, argued that $65 million would be enough to restore Argentine credit. For the moment no decision was reached; the dickering continued...