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Wealthiest Swede since Kreuger, Axel Wenner-Gren is a mysterious globetrotter, one of the last of the international capitalists. He built his fortune on wood pulp, aviation, munitions (Bofors), vacuum cleaners and refrigerators (Servel, Inc.). Since 1939 he has lived on Hog Island (near Nassau) on a magnificent estate called Shangri-La. He is an intimate of the Duke of Windsor. Two months ago he left Peru, where he had sponsored an archeological expedition, and arrived in Mexico, where he said he intended to "engage in economic activities...
...runs "The Truth About the Japs," as presented to the American public in the widely read pulp magazines and newspapers of our nation. This quotation happens to come from an article by Ernest O. Hauser in the January issue of LOOK magazine. Claiming that "no one in America has a keener understanding of the Japanese than Mr. Hauser," LOOK proceeds to publish an article which would be labeled "humour" if it were not printed at this particular time. "The Japanese is compelled to go through life without romance--which may be why he lacks imagination and is generally such...
...about the actual danger which is facing them. If the newspapers and magazines of the country would spend less effort on giving them unnecessary excuses to fight the enemy, and more accurate reporting and cold fact, the people would respond with a seriousness which is not warranted by the pulp journalese which they are now expected to take seriously...
...steel than last year, 75% less zinc. > Vacuum-cleaner production for the first quarter will be cut 25-40%. > Electric-light-bulb output will be cut to 1940 volume, about 20% under 1941. Purpose : to save brass and tungsten. > OPM, in a precedent-setting move, ordered all sulphite pulp producers to set aside a monthly pool for allocation to 120 customers of three competing manufacturers (Rayonier, Eastern Corp., Brown Co.) who are too busy with explosives contracts to handle their regular business. > General Motors has received $769,300,000 in new war orders since Jan. 1, bringing its total...
...hoarding of young men-hardened to horror on the cold plains of Manchukuo and in the hot valley of the Yangtze. For the sake of the chips there had been abnegation: less rice, less fish, less charcoal, no taxi rides, a minimum of sake, stinting on geishas, wood-pulp clothes...