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...ordinary when President Roosevelt next decreed a complete embargo on shipments of scrap iron and steel to Japan. In the midst of these moves, whose only distinction was that they were coming more rapidly than in the past, U. S. citizens read that Japan, Germany, Italy had signed a ten-year pact to protect the "new order" in Europe and Asia, to pledge mutual assistance in case another power (i.e., the U. S.) became involved in the European or Asiatic...
During the ten-year reign of Carol Hohenzollern two premiers were shot out from under him. The proud, nervous, chain-smoking King, who committed the supreme political folly of trying to give Rumania a regime of royal totalitarianism with no base among the masses, knew he faced death. If the train failed to stop it might be dynamited or derailed. Taking this chance, Carol ordered his engineer to stop for nothing. He roared through Timisoara station amid a hail of bullets which smashed many of the windows, missed occupants of the train who flung themselves on the floor, deeply scarred...
April 26. Britain conscription begins. Hitler in a Reichstag speech asks for Danzig, denounces Anglo-German Naval Treaty and Polish Ten-Year Treaty...
Last month two events quickened its pace. One was National Defense. As U. S. heavy industry began stirring from its ten-year sleep, many a holding company with arrearages on its preferred stock faced the problem of raising new money, building new generating capacity. The other was a new policy announced by SEC. In response to pleas from United Gas Improvement Co., Chairman Jerome Frank agreed that, instead of merely ruling on plans batted up by the bewildered companies, SEC would step to the plate and suggest plans for compliance itself...
Other significant gains in capital goods: packaging machinery, especially for foods, destined for Latin America; trucks & busses up 47%; electrical equipment up 24%; farm implement exports up 20% to $16,690,000. But all such items fell miserably short of the ten-digit dollar totals needed to snap U. S. capital goods production out of its ten-year slump...