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...tin operations were also turning sour. After a $9,000,000 profit in the last fiscal year, RFC expects to lose $8,000,000 this year on the tin smelter it is operating in Texas. Low-priced tin from abroad is cutting into its market. Senators, deciding that it was high time to look into RFC's operations, last week appropriated...
During his childhood in Flushing, Ohio, Reverdy knew "constant hunger; the old distillery near grandfather Ransom's house, and regular visits there to get 10? or 15? worth of whisky in a tin bucket; the unswerving religious devotion in our small community; no toys and little play; only a candy peach at Christmas; and my mother toiling to support...
Before Christmas Urriolagoitia offered to give tin producers who increased their exports a more favorable exchange rate for their dollar earnings. Such a measure was of small help: Malaya and Indonesia, with the advantage of currency devaluation, were selling high-grade tin at a price Bolivia could not continue to meet. Last week the President appointed an Emergency Economic Committee to report on possible fiscal expedients...
...Washington, Bolivian representatives urged the U.S. to stockpile Bolivian tin at a price around 90? a lb. Reluctant to pay a bonus of 12½? a lb. above the world price, U.S. officials stuck to the view that the Bolivians would have to continue to help themselves. With little else to sell in the world but high-cost tin, and with their unemployment rolls growing daily, Bolivians could look forward to a long siege...
...Sammy crashed the movies with You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me for Maurice Chevalier. Sammy's songs turned up in 50 other movies, and last week, Sammy was just about the biggest bang in Tin Pan Alley. With his senti mental hit of the '30s, I Can Dream, Can't I? on top of the hit parade, and his bouncy new Dear Hearts and Gentle People not far behind, Sammy wasn't killing himself any more...