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Whether, in future Lend-Lease bills. Congress would provide enough for this gigantic program was another question which gave everybody some anxiety. Last week the Administration was buying surplus commodities for shipment to Britain and her allies at the rate of $5,000,000 a day. The last of the Lend-Lease food money that Congress has voted ($1,500,000,000) will be spent long before next spring's and summer's crops...
...revolutionary theory of an annual wage for seasonal industries. Intending to teach, he was so irritated by the blank laughter his views aroused among businessmen that he went into business himself. His first venture was an unlikely scheme to sell U.S. oil products in bulk to Palestine. The first shipment netted him $20,000, and in three years he had 40% of the market...
...soldiers in the North Carolina maneuvers went the first of 38 carloads of Baltimore ice cream last week. Railroads had to pack this precious freight in dry ice and kapok blankets instead of the usual wet salt and ice. So important was the shipment considered that it was granted right of way in transportation over tanks, trucks and guns...
...rumored that wily German Ambassador Franz von Papen (see p. 102) had tried to save his own foxy countenance by requesting a token shipment of 2,500 tons of chrome at once. But this contract, with its never-never quality, was the best that Germany could...
...Marked for shipment to France: 473,510 lb. of aluminum plate and rods; 215,000 lb. of steel...