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...green-swarded Barksdale Field. Across the field and less than a mile from the spectators was a plot 2,000 feet long, 1,000 feet wide (eight big city blocks), spotted with 100 obsolete tanks, a few reconnaissance cars, patches of cardboard to represent troops. Rearing above the junk were two white pyramids, each the center of a 100-foot circle. These were the bull's-eyes for the high-altitude bombers...
...Unless the Washington Government acts soon to restore the integrity of its treaties in the Manchurian crisis, the peace machinery built up after the travail of the World War will be worthless junk. . . . Settlement of Japan's war of aggression against China is in itself a serious enough problem. But it is insignificant compared with the larger issue of rescuing the world's peace machinery...
Excess Profits: Bitterest fight in Congress was over the Treasury's demand to junk the average-earnings method of figuring excess-profits taxes. The Treasury lost. But the definition of "excess profits" was changed for companies using the investment-capital option: they must figure their excess-profits credit (formerly a uniform 8% of capital) as a 8% return on the first $5,000,000 in capital, 7% on the balance...
Most uneasy diplomat in the Western Hemisphere last week was Germany's Ambassador to Argentina, Baron Edmund von Thermann. Before his eyes one of the Nazis' neatest, costliest propaganda machines was being turned into junk. What was worse, it seemed likely that he would shortly be back in Berlin where he would have to explain what went wrong...
...items, baby carriages for example, had only two ounces of aluminum in 50 pounds of bulk. The smelters screamed because they had to pay freight on stuff they could not use; in addition had to pay men to cull the aluminum, a job usually done by the junk man. Worse still, the smelters began to run out of storage space. In relation to its bulk, some of the scrap yielded only one-third the expected aluminum...