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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sinkiang Province (area: 705,769 sq. mi.; population: 4,360,000), sometimes called Chinese Turkestan, is a fairly rich, comparatively unexploited, thoroughly exotic area. Its principal exports have been wool, camel's-hair, sheep guts, gold, jade, fine horses, Chinese medicinal ingredients (elk horn, saiga antelope horn, bears' paws). The huge province has never been properly integrated with China, and since about 1930, Russian influence has almost amounted to domination. Since economically Sinkiang is already virtually a Russian province, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, no lover of Communists, may well have seen the sense of making concessions there...
Bermuda, land of honeymoons, the 20 sq. mi. islands where yellow Brooks sweaters and turquoise tweed skirts once blossomed like wildflowers, where daiquiris trickled like forest streams, is different these days. It is just another British colony...
...product of the boom in U. S. air-crafting is a sensational airplane plant building boom. At Paterson (N. J.) Curtiss-Wright's Wright Aeronautical Corp., flush with $7,000,000 of new Army business, got ready last week to build 300,000 sq. ft. of new floor space. In California -at Inglewood, San Diego, Hawthorne-North American Aviation, Consolidated Aircraft, Northrop, planned new buildings. Newest centre of U. S. aircraft's effort to reach the stature of a mass instead of unit producing industry is Detroit, where 27 companies have been officially approved as parts suppliers...
...wool is a real war commodity-needed for soldiers' uniforms, overcoats, blankets. The U. S. has no wool surplus and the British Empire has forbidden wool exports outside of the Empire. Besides raw wool, millions of yards of woolens normally imported from Britain (1938 imports: 4,800,000 sq. yds.) will have to be made...
...slashed rentals almost 50% ($14 to $7.50 a sq. ft.) in Fair-owned buildings; 2) cut ground rentals 10% for those who had built their own buildings; 3) offered a 50% rent cut to all States exhibiting; 4) advertised sites in the Fair's Town of Tomorrow at a 30% markdown; 5) abolished all charges for removing garbage...