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...plants. Unless these plants have aluminum, they cannot make bombers. At the belated best, Mr. Jones's Government-owned aluminum plants may be operating by late 1942 (if they can be rapidly tooled, if sufficient power can be found, if enough bauxite-now mostly imported by Alcoa from Surinam-is at hand...
...price record includes cuts in the inflated 1925-29 period, two more cuts since the suit began-the second last week by 1? a Ib. to 18?, the lowest price ever. As for the bauxite monopoly, Alcoa pointed to plenty of uncontrolled low-cost ore in Surinam (Dutch Guiana), high-cost ore in Arkansas. As for national defense, Alcoa pointed to $26,000,000 worth of plant expansion in 1937, $30,000,000 worth last year. As for the ingot monopoly, Alcoa's claim has always been that anyone was at liberty to compete, but few had ever tried...
Foulest blow of this new Nazi in-fighting landed under the belly of the 8,3O9-ton Dutch liner Simon Bolivar, carrying 170 crew and 230 passengers for Paramaribo, Surinam. Coasting at midday about 16 miles off Harwich, England, through a calm, sunny sea, she ran into two mines which tore out her bottom, killed her captain and about 100 others, injured 200. Most of the passengers were German-Jewish refugees, scores of them children...
Netherlands Beyond the Seas includes Curacao, in the Caribbean; Surinam (formerly Dutch Guiana), in South America, and most important of all, the archipelago officially called The Netherlands Indies, known to the native inhabitants as Indonesia, called by old mariners simply The Indies. These islands, home of orangutans, Komodo dragons, hornbills and headhunters, producer of pearls, spices, rare woods, stretches 1,300 miles from North to South, 3,000 from East to West and are inhabited by 60,000,000 brown-bodied souls, not counting some 1,500,000 Asiatics and Europeans. Queen Wilhelmina has never visited her Eastern Empire (although...
...Netherlands Government recently notified the U. S. Post Office Department that Dutch Guiana would hereafter be called only Surinam. Other changes: Dutch East Indies to Netherlands Indies, the Dutch West Indies to Curacao. The word "Dutch" has long been taboo in The Netherlands...