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Last week, hot on big International's heels followed two smaller competitors. Oliver Farm Equipment Co. promised a 5-ft., $575 combine would be readyfor mid-April shipment. J. I. Case Co. announced immediate mass production of a 4½ft., $530 model...
...that it has begun seriously to deteriorate. Despite all the bluff about Russia supplying oil to the Reich, it was noted last week that at the Rumanian port of Constantsa on the Black Sea, the first post-pact Russian tanker with oil consigned to Germany had just arrived. The shipment-12,000 tons-was to be refined in Rumania and then shipped by rail through Hungary to the Reich-a long, expensive process...
...first large shipment of medical supplies from the American Red Cross reached Helsinki (ten ambulances, 123,496 dressings, 2,000 sheets, operating gowns, tents, drugs, clothing), the New York Evening Post's ambulating Columnist W. L. ("Young Bill") White took occasion to explain to his fellow Americans what the Finns think of them. Wrote...
...from December, mainly because of colder weather, but under inventory pressure prices begin to follow the general downtrend. Evidence of increasing coal inventories in mining centres: freight loadings of coal fell, in spite of increased production, in spite of the freezing of the Ohio around Pittsburgh which prevents shipment by river. Further declines in steel & other production will curtail coal demand...
...measured language, got no satisfactory answer. To a note in which he conceded the right of the British to search parcel-post packages at Gibraltar but complained that U. S. ships had been discriminated against, subjected to unreasonable delay, he got no answer at all. Last week, banning the shipment of "articles or materials" by air mail, the U. S. indicated that it thereby removed any further excuse for a repetition of the Bermuda incident...