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...received money from ostensible German "welfare" agencies, that he used the money for ends "foreign to his diplomatic character." As the four most influential newspapers in Buenos Aires (La Nación, La Prensa, El Mundo, Critica) issued a simultaneous demand that Acting President RamÓn S. Castillo scrap his policy of neutrality, it looked as if Ambassador von Thermann would soon pack his trunks...
Even where Henderson had imposed ceilings, there was no stopping the upward trend. When he "suggested" fair prices for gasoline at Northeastern Seaboard filling stations last week, most dealers kept selling for at least ½? higher. Henderson himself admitted that the six-month-old steel scrap ceiling was generally ignored and threatened to "crack down" (but he did not say with what...
...LaGuardia proposed that the local committees sell direct to the smelters. The Mayor also wanted the smelters to pay a fixed price for the scrap, plus freight charges. All the money was to go unmarked to the U.S. Treasury's General Fund...
Last July, when bustle-bottomed Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia waddled into the aluminum drive as head of OCD, rangy Bob McConnell of OPM's conservation division already had a plan. It called for collection of the scrap by local committees, its sale to junk dealers who would sell it to the smelters. But the Little Flower did not trust junk dealers. Too many already were bootlegging aluminum-utensil scrap for as high as 40? a pound (Leon Henderson's ceiling...
...European Russia would also ease Hitler's shortage of manganese, aluminum, lead and zinc-but not markedly. He would get little badly needed copper, nickel, tin or gold out of the Russian earth, but probably one of his greatest quick gains would be millions of tons of scrap metals, of many sorts, from wrecked Russian machinery and weapons...