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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With one hand he would beckon the Dictators to a peace conference table, with the other he would make the largest gesture of "force to force" that he knew how: move the Battle Fleet back into the Pacific where it could offset any Japanese menace to Great Britain, France and The Netherlands in the Orient...
...motor and oil bigwigs who said there would be no European war, and who welcomed Hitler's firming grip on Central Europe because, they said, it would bring order out of chaos there. Exciting to Detroit was the thought that the new Dodge truck plant, world's largest, could be transformed overnight to produce shells, cannon or airplanes. Detroit editors differed with their tycoons: they believed European war inescapable, U. S. participation almost obligatory. Men-in-the-street did not yet take the situation personally, but newsstand sales were far above normal on crisis days...
...show will be given some time in the latter part of May in one of Boston's largest theatres and will run for four days. Written by Marcel Achard and produced in Paris last year by Louis Jouvet, the play was hailed as a definite succeeds...
...company, he nostalgically recalled that he used to be a newspaperman himself. He was a cub reporter on the Washington Herald in his law-school days, long before Hearst bought & sold the Herald. He has had, however, another and longer connection with the business: the new head of the largest U. S. newsprint consumer has been since 1933 a director of International Paper Co., largest paper company in the world...
More than almost any other, the business of making locomotives is either a feast or a famine. Lima Locomotive Co., third largest in the U. S., feasted in 1937 when it made 101 locomotives at a profit of $1,019,983, first since 1930. Last year Lima got along on beans-it made ten locomotives and lost $687,035. This year Lima is dining a little less frugally-it got an order for twelve locomotives in February. And last week Lima had a new face at the head of its table. Vice President John E. Dixon became president in place...