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...internal blockade of Germany, in "a vast territory occupied by German armies." Other promises Mr. Hoover hoped to exact from Nazi Germany were a return to the conquered nations of the equivalent of the food Germany had already seized from them, and permission for the conquered countries to import supplies from Russia and the Balkans. These conditions would also be watched by the U. S. commission. Said Mr. Lippmann: "It does then seem a bit premature . . . for anyone to begin talking as if a fine humanitarian plan of relief was being opposed by the British and the American Governments...
...Chief import gains were in rubber and tin from the East Indies, nickel from Canada, wool from Argentina and South Africa. Since RFC has only recently begun its purchases of strategic materials, these gains were likely to grow. But, for the six months, total imports were up only 18%. Result was a U. S. merchandise export balance of $773,927,000-highest for any half-year period since...
...always polite. Last fall the posted steel price threatened to rise; the Temporary National Economic Committee called steelmen to Washington, argued for low prices, hinted at an anti-steel publicity campaign; the steel price stayed put. When housewives started to hoard retail sugar (TIME, Sept. 23), the President untied import quotas; in came Cuban sugar, down went prices. Copper began to move upwards; the President said the price was being watched, and the move slackened. Few weeks ago domestic mercury sold as high as $200 a flask. So the Administration stopped issuing export licenses for domestic mercury (a strategic material...
...task that Cordell Hull & colleagues deliberately cultivated the idea that all they hoped for in Havana was "an exchange of information," a common understanding which might be the basis for later, concrete achievement. A big bargaining point was President Roosevelt's plan to up the U. S. Export-Import Bank's capital and lending power $500,000,000 to finance inter-American trade...
...underground strongboxes at Fort Knox, Ky., it left vacant a number of gold vaults in the U. S. Treasury in Washington. Last week the Public Health Service used these to start another kind of hoard-drugs, especially drugs which World War II has made more & more difficult to import. High on this list is quinine, most of which is imported from the war-threatened Netherlands East Indies. Others: opium, morphine...