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...time past, whin I put me jut through wry livin' wan of the Tin Commandments between Revelly and Lights Out, blew the froth off a pewter, wiped me mustache wid the back av me hand, an' slept on ut all as quiet as a little child...
...radio's song pool, sent out royalty checks for the first quarter of 1941, threw Tin Pan Alley into an uproar. Stunned were BMItes, accustomed to a fat swag from 27-year-old rival ASCAP, to receive amounts as small as $2.45. While victims screamed that they were robbed, BMI last week made a hasty checkup, discovered that a honeymoon-struck accountant had figured into the publishers royalties everything but the big item, payments for radio network performances...
...issue. For the President had made it plain that it was not simply a matter of delivering goods to Britain and Britain's colonies. It was a question of keeping the world's sea lanes open for the passage of such raw materials as rubber and tin, which are essential to U.S. defense. Many a Congressman who had thought the historic U.S. policy of "the freedom of the seas'' was just a phrase of Woodrow Wilson's saw the light last week after the President's message...
...which figured it had learned all about the modern world from having lived in it only 73 years, the world suddenly presented a puzzling aspect. Japan had suffered her worst diplomatic defeat in years, a flat refusal by The Netherlands Indies to recognize Japanese "rights" to abnormal amounts of tin and rubber. The U.S. was suddenly on the aggressive in the Pacific (see p. 37) and two western powers with which Japan had in the past year sealed solemn pacts of friendship and neutrality-Russia and Germany-were suddenly at each other's throats...
Similar preclusive deals with other South American countries are in the cards. Economic diplomats in Washington look to Colombia's platinum and mercury; Bolivia's tin and tungsten; Chile's copper and nitrates; Venezuela's asphalt and oil-many another product the U.S. can use and ought to keep out of Axis hands...