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Hedy Lamarrs and Ann Sheridans may come and go, but Dietrich will star forever. Her latest, "The Seven Sinners," is a cinema "Panama Hattie" with a Malayan locale, minus the fifth column and Ethel Merman and plus a liberal sprinkling of the Navy. Marlene, just as alluring in the part of a honky-tonk songstress as ever she could have been in her pre-Hitler Berlin musical comedy days, makes up for the loss of Ethel...
...world's 2,300,000, now supplies less than 1% of world production nettles President Vargas. That bright, chipper dictator has two ideas: that war stoppage of East Indies rubber supply might restore wild rubber's lost market; that if Brazilian rubber can be grown on Malayan plantations, it can be grown on Brazilian plantations as well. To be sure Henry Ford's Brazilian rubber plantations have encountered many difficulties, little commercial success so far, but Vargas thinks this is because Ford's effort is not yet on a production basis...
...winter, contracted with Phelps Dodge Corp. to supply tin for its new experimental smelter (TIME, Dec. 11). Meanwhile American Metal Co. Ltd. and American Smelting and Refining Co. also built pilot plants, and learned how to process Bolivian ore (which is high-cost, low-grade) with no admixture of Malayan. By last week it was pretty clear that, besides accumulating a 75,000-ton stockpile of smelted tin, the U. S. must be prepared (in case Britain and Malaya go under) to smelt Bolivian ore on a big scale...
...changed his mind: "Since the war began, I have felt that I could not go on being a pacifist. If I were young enough to fight I would do so." Visiting in England, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, "White Rajah" of Sarawak (Northwestern Borneo), contributed 1,000,000 Malayan Straits dollars (about $470,000) to help the British Government...
Main case history in Western Hemisphere rubber planting is that of Henry Ford. In 1922, the British Government helped Malayan and Ceylon producers go on an oldtime monopolistic spree that sent the price of rubber (in good years between 15?^ and 20?^) skyrocketing to over $1.20 in 1925. To help break the monopoly, Ford, in 1927, got himself two concessions in Brazil. On some 2,000,000 lush jungle acres, he settled 2,000 workers and their families...