Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Llewellyn Lewis of United Mine Workers. With United Mine Workers' contracts about to expire simultaneously with the late NRA on June 16, Miner Lewis has been brewing a big bituminous strike to keep wages up (TIME, June 10). In wholehearted sympathy with him are most of the Northern bituminous mine operators, who will continue to pay high wages if the Government will continue to help hold coal prices up. Miner Lewis, abetted by the owners, has been working a trade with the Administration whereby he would call off his coal strike in return for passage of the Guffey...
...objection to Germany's naval demands. Snapped the French semi-official Journal des Débats: "If the German fleet were fixed at 35% of the British strength that would be equal to 85% of the French fleet. Germany would therefore have an incontestable superiority in the northern seas, as we would be obliged to keep part of our force in the Mediterranean and for colonial defense. Consequently we are faced with this alternative: Either to leave our ports open to German attack or to increase our naval forces. As is so often the case, these pretended agreements...
...Gran Chaco is rated a "green hell" by romantic Author-Explorer Julian Duguid. Actually it is a great variegated basin extending from northern Argentina to eastern Bolivia. The disputed section is a liver-shaped area bounded by the Paraguay and Pilcomayo Rivers. At the Paraguayan edge it is grassy and open, the soil sandy and dry. Farther west the jungle swamps and lagoons begin, follow the sluggish, unnavigable Pilcomayo to the south, dot the drowned lands to the north. Still farther west, verging into Bolivia's Andean foothills, the land changes again to open woodland, broken by fertile plains...
...North American such a wild terrain does not seem economically worth fighting for. Perhaps it has oil. Perhaps Bolivia, cut off from the Pacific by Chile 52 years ago, needs an outlet across the northern Chaco to the navigable Paraguay River. However, landlocked Bolivia already has far better outlets: by railroad across Chile to the coast; by railroad to the navigable reaches of the Amazon in Brazil. The Gran Chaco War was wholly a peoples' war, begun by a rousing pair of national inferiority complexes...
Reassured, the stockmarket regained all lost ground and last week pushed forward to the best levels since September 1931- just before Britain quit the gold standard. More inspiring was a sudden interest in slumbering railroad stocks, particularly those of the transcontinentals. Great Northern blossomed out as the week's second most active stock on the New York Stock Exchange, rising on reports of bumper Northwestern crops to $19.75, up $3.50. Northern Pacific jumped $2.50 to $19.75. Atchison at $47 and Union Pacific at $105.50 were both...