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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From a lady in Hamilton, Ohio: ". . . this glittering coruscation of impalpable sound. ... I fled to my bed determined that I should never again be so vulnerable to such perfection. I didn't have the strength to dance, or laugh, or cry, or shout...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed the Planning Committee for Mineral Policy, which urgently recommended accumulation of a stockpile. But the President, who won his bet with Senator Borah that World War II would begin in autumn 1939, never pressed for action. When war came, the price of tin shot up from 49? to 75? a lb., then slumped back as the first wave of inventory buying passed. Last week, independently of Government initiative, U. S. tin smelting was cautiously getting off to a new start. Two famed U. S. copper interests-Phelps Dodge (No. 3 U. S. copper unit) and American...
...Both companies deliberately put themselves under a handicap by using low-grade Bolivian ore rather than good Malayan ore, which may be cut off by the tin trust. This increases smelting costs so much that the U. S. State Department, which loves to promote trade with Latin America, has never helped it, believing it would be uneconomic...
Timetable for Tramps contains excellent pages on New York City, Marseille, London, post-War Paris, and on the habits of those who live there. Well aware that, thanks to war, most of what he tells of will never be the same again, Koeves subtitles his volume "A European Testament." In a modest and genuine way, it is. It is also what it set out to be: a good book about travel, of which the chief regret is, that with so sharp a focus drawn on the theory of travel, the lens is trained so little on its practice...
...which Britain has been dragged. He will reminisce on the subject of cricket, paint a picture of the jolly old hills of England, and dwell upon the good fellowship which blesses Anglo-American relations. If he is adroit at the art--and obviously he is adroit, or Britain would never have let such a valuable man go in time of war -- American radio executives should learn much which will profoundly affect their later treatment of war news...