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Herr Hitler's submarines, by their most recent torpedoings, have given the people of this country some tangible alibi for urging Congress to scrap the Neutrality Act. The sudden outcry of "out-rage" and "dastardly rattlesnake" must be reminiscent, to those who lived through it, of the last war and the Lusitania...
...shut off exports of aviation fuel to Japan, Nipponese officials claim that American and Dutch concerns have stocked her with enough gasoline for a year. Furthermore, rumors are of ten heard that our oil companies are still sending crude fuel which is cracked upon arrival. We are still shipping scrap iron, tin plate, cotton, aluminum, lumber, and hides, and are still buying silk...
...ceiling-price violator, was one of the largest U.S. iron & steel-scrap dealers. He too remained anonymous because he agreed to make full restitution of sums collected above OPA's ceiling, not to discriminate in scrap sales to customers, hereafter to observe strictly the price schedule...
...gringos back up north, its oil properties have been limping and stalling. Last year's production was 40,300,000 bbl.-compared to 46,500,000 bbl. in the last pre-expropriation year. Exploration has almost stopped. Some of the movable equipment has been shipped to Japan for scrap, in exchange for the kind of ready cash that used to pour in from oil-company taxes. President Avila Camacho might well find U.S. oil know-how and oil capital useful-if only a way could be figured to save the face he must turn to his anti-gringo voters...
...Last week five open-hearth furnaces in Pennsylvania and Ohio shut down for lack of scrap...