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...with the previous inhabitants. From Costa Rica last week came word that Refugee Economic Corp. of Manhattan has purchased for a reputed $1 an acre the 50,000-acre Tenorio estate in Guanacosti Province to become a Jewish community where refugees from Nazi Germany may enjoy peace and raise soya beans. Elaborate plans included clearing jungle, road building, construction of an airport...
...Memphis went Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, to Chicago Assistant Secretary Milburn Lincoln Wilson, to explain things: The Government meant to take 30,000,000 out of 300,000,000 acres normally devoted to soil-depleting crops (cotton, corn, wheat) and put them into soil-conserving crops (alfalfa, soya beans). Farmers would probably be paid 75? to $1 an acre for planting soil-conserving crops, a larger fee for land changed over from soil-depleting crops. There would be no government contracts...
...January through April), half off for grapefruit, one-eighth to one-quarter off the automobile tariff, similar cuts on electric refrigerators, washing machines, radios and abolition of the duty on magazines.* Furthermore Canada promised to keep U. S. raw cotton on her free list. Duty free likewise will be soya beans, bristles, eggplant, artichokes, horseradish and okra, hop poles and railway ties, tourist literature, zinc dust, Mexican saddle trees. Duties will be lower on a multitude of off-season vegetables, on regalia and badges, on albumenized paper, peaviners, wire (single and several), pruning hooks, cantaloupes, dynamos, surgical dressings, sanitary napkins...
...before Glidden Co.'s Soya Products Division six-story building-once a bootleg brewery-was humming with routine activity. Tons of soy-bean mash seethed in huge vats. An unlucky janitor, going to lunch, turned back to get his coat. That was the last anyone saw of him alive. Suddenly the walls of the building flew out like the staves of a collapsing barrel. Two freight cars beside the loading platform were reduced to chips. Bodies of workmen landed in the street, one 50 ft. from the plant. A water tank sailed through the air, smashed an automobile flat...
...Might in its crudest form the Japanese Empire can sell to China. After all, what was "The Opium War?" Chinese say it was a successful exhibition of Might by the British Empire to sell British opium to Chinese. What Japan wants to sell is Japanese cotton piece goods, Manchurian soya beans and such. Tokyo knew last week that Japan produces no opium, that the British Empire (India) still exports most to opium smoking countries, that Chinese still smoke most. Diplomatic Fronts. Toward the League of Nations and the Great Powers last week, Japan's attitude was that the diplomatic...