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...This first general Neutrality act was hastily patched up and put into effect for six months until a permanent act could be written. Its chief provision was to place a mandatory embargo on the shipment to warring countries of "arms, ammunition and implements of war," (which were later defined by the President to include airplanes, various chemicals, armored vehicles but not cotton, oil, scrap iron, trucks, etc.). It also forbade U. S. citizens to travel on vessels of warring nations except at their own risk...
...military occupation of that outlet. On the Westerplatte, a low bank at the entrance to Danzig Harbor, however, is generally harbored a small garrison of Polish troops which guards a Polish ammunition warehouse. Behind those troops is an incident of 1920, when German Communist dock workers held up a shipment of arms to Poland, then fighting for its life against Bolshevik Russia. It was then that Poland saw the light and began to plan at Gdynia, 13 miles northwest, a new port. Poland knows that an occupation of Danzig would give Germany a stranglehold on Gdynia. To keep Danzig alive...
Only 30,000 tons of the rubber are now in stock in Singapore; the rest must ooze out of trees, be dried and baled for shipment. The U. S. cotton is but 41% of the 13,700,000-bale mountain held by the Government. To release it, Congress has only to authorize Commodity Credit Corp. to dispose of it at less than the prices loaned on it to U. S. planters. Joe Kennedy, old-time Wall Street trader, felt tickled that he had saved his country about $6,000,000 on a $30,000,000 purchase, also that half...
...Passed a bill permitting interstate shipment of fight films, sent it to conference...
...them, the Argentine 35, The Netherlands 117. The last of the Netherlands order is being set up for flight this week in Java. Altogether 340 B-10s rolled out through the factory doors, to be flown to nearby purchasers, or to be packed in crates for overseas shipment. They were so far ahead of bombers of the day that they won Builder Martin the Collier Trophy...