Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus if the U. S. could take over the markets dropped by the belligerents it could practically double its exports to Latin America. The only competitor still free to bid against the U. S. for the market is Japan, and the U. S. has a big lead on her. For not only has the U. S. long since entrenched itself as the No. 1 Latin American trader, but Cordell Hull's Good Neighbor policy and reciprocal trade agreements have begun to persuade Latin America to believe that Dollar Diplomacy is dead...
...opening in the chemical business, the U. S. could particularly thank its lucky star. World War I boosted the U. S. permanently to the position of chief trader with Latin America, but in chemicals Germany was still chemistry's Big Store, with plenty of exclusive products, and when the war had ended it hopped right back to the top of the market. But World War I left the U. S. in possession, through seizure, of certain of Germany's most prized secret chemical processes, which went to the U. S. industry. Today it is possible to take Germany...
...Amadis," "Thesee" (Symphony orchestra conducted by Maurice Cauchie; Columbia: 4 sides). Father of French opera was Jean Baptiste Lully, who tailored stage performances for paunchy Louis XIV. Lully's operas are now as dated as snuff and ruffles. But the sunny, melodious music he wrote for them is still as fresh as an enameled daisy...
Meanwhile, London's No. 1 best-seller was Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, with Mein Kampf still holding first place among war books...
...Still handsome at 45, tall, black-haired, brogueish, magnetic Rex Ingram prefers tequila to Scotch, smokes pipes and cigars, hates to ride in airplanes, says he needs very little money to get along on. To people who ask him if he doesn't get bored with so little work to do, Rex Ingram replies that he only started to work when he quit his job in Hollywood...