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...Much Talk? When he returned from his last junket to Berlin, Rome and Moscow, Mr. Matsuoka was welcomed at a mass meeting sponsored by the City of Tokyo and the Imperial Blue Assistance Association. Bubbling with his accomplishment, he told how he and Joseph Stalin had signed their Neutrality Pact...
From the mouthpiece of a mouthpiece, Puppet Wang's Finance Minister Chou Fu-hai, came the real reason for Wang's junket, the act behind the ballyhoo. It took the form of three suggestions that were certainly not impure ideas. Chou hoped that Japan would: 1) extend Nanking's power north and south; 2) control business less stringently; 3) change the form of Japanese-Chinese joint industries so that Chinese might be induced to invest in them...
Meanwhile 0PM attacked the steel-plate problem from another front. Its steel expert, W. A. Hauck, set off last week on a junket to big-time sheet and strip mills to study whether they might be converted to plate production. Present annual plate capacity is some 6,500,000 tons; it was hoped that 1,500,000 tons could be added to this by conversion right away. One example was announced last week: smart Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel (see p. 74) is rearranging its Great Lakes subsidiary (hot-rolled strip and sheets) to provide 300,000 tons...
Though its leisurely spring junket to southern climes for a meeting at the College of William and Mary breaks a tradition in vogue for over 300 years, the Board of Overseers entrains today for Dunbarton Oaks, in Washington, where members will open their crowded schedule with a luncheon at Harvard's new museum of...Byzantine art. Regular meetings of the Board have always been held in Cambridge of Boston since the first...
Tomorrow morning he is expected to preside at a meeting of the Corporation here, and on Saturday he is slated to lead the special junket of the Board of Overseers to William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia...