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With the U. S. Government cutting cotton production and supporting cotton prices, foreign acreage has increased 20% in a year. China, Russia, India are all underselling U. S. cotton on the world market, but the stiffest competitor is Brazil. Grown on abandoned coffee plantation acreage and tended by cheap Indian labor, 448,000 bales of cotton were produced by Brazil in 1932-33. This year's output is estimated at 1,591,000 bales. Price...
...nnhilde. Time & again he flung down his pen and paced the floor. He recalled in his autobiography that once "my courage failed me completely, for I could not help asking myself whether the singer had yet been born who was capable of vitalizing this heroic female figure."* The stiffest test in all grand opera is the Brünnhilde of Götterdämmerung. That rôle made big news in Manhattan last week when it was sung for the first time by Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, the Metropolitan's new Norwegian import (TIME...
...Friday and Saturday, February 8 and 9, the team will run into its stiffest competition when it goes to the Dartmouth Carnival, the first meet for any by the downhill men. In the jumping Harvard will be well represented by Cedric E. Francis '37, who took fifth place in a recent intercollegiate contest at Lake Placid, and by Brooks and Emerson. For the slalom, a form of race in which a tortuous course is steered down an open slope between prescribed markers, the veteran group of Carter, Maclaurin, and Rogers will undertake the point making...
...pilot of the U. S. His rivals sneer at his clothes, at his brash statements that he is "a bit of a hero to the boys of the country," at his public swagger, but there could be no sneering at the flying records that he has won in the stiffest competition. His speed racing began in earnest in 1930 when he first broke the East-West transcontinental record...
...that Dr. Schacht has so manipulated the Reichsbank's balances of foreign exchange as to have set up "a hidden reserve equal to many times the amount of interest on the Dawes and Young loans" lately repudiated by Dr. Schacht (TIME, June 25). The British note, probably the stiffest yet signed by Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, accused the Reichsbank by inference of falsifying its statistics and branded Dr. Schacht as a willful saboteur of German credit. "The policy of Germany," Sir John charged, "is to claim that no foreign exchange resources are available to meet the service...