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...democracies, who have always officially believed the Aggrandizer's words rather than his acts, it came as a great sur prise when, on March 12, 1938, his troops marched into Austria-area: 32,369 square miles; population: 6,760,233; resources: lignite, anthracite, iron, copper, lead, zinc, lumber, small manufactures, agriculture, gold reserve of $46,000,000. After the Austrian grab, the Mehrer said...
Currently the Intercoastal Steamship Freight Association, organized in 1936, is in a frightful row because a nonmember, Shepard Steamship Co., which hauls lumber to the Atlantic Coast, undercuts conference rates to attract return freight rather than send its ships back in ballast...
Italy will import such valuable potential wartime supplies as naphtha and manganese, vital peacetime products such as coal, lumber, wheat and barley. Symbolic of their new pocketbook friendship was the launching at Livorno last week of a small destroyer, Italian-built for the Russian Navy...
...world's most valuable deposits of nitrate and the second largest known deposits of copper; its pleasant, well-watered, fertile central area, where most of its people live, supplies more wheat, cattle and wine than Chile can use; and its rain-sodden southern provinces are rich in lumber, much of them still virgin territory and inhabited by half-savage Indians...
Charlie Babb got this idea for a flying freight car from the demands of Latin-American customers serving mines, lumber camps and industries in localities accessible only by air. Most of these use giant Curtiss Condors rebuilt as cargo ships. Now busy refitting six Condors to carry mahogany logs out of Yucatan's wilds, Babb hit on the idea of a unique Babb Special. It will have a wing span of 100 feet, twin motors and a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Its cargo space will be 35 feet long, 8½ feet wide, 9 feet deep. Through...