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...ordered a set of paints from Sears, Roebuck, got herself some old planks, sheets of tin and pieces of threshing canvas to paint on. Then she started to make pictures of the hilly country around Eagle Bridge. Most of her pictures showed scenes and events of farm life: boiling maple sap on the winter snow, rounding up the turkey for Thanksgiving, covered bridges, Model T Fords, bonfires. Her picture frames she took from old mirrors in the attic. Once she attempted an allegory: a picture of an angel saving two children from falling over a cliff. She labeled...
...scrap moved out of the U. S.-Asiatic limelight, many a more innocent-looking export and import commodity moved into it more & more: cotton, textiles, rubber, tin, lumber and pulp, drugs, toys, machinery, pepper, hides, wool, silk. Businessmen in these lines had reason to ponder the course of Washington-Tokyo diplomacy. For if the U. S. went to war with Japan, an enormous two-way trade across the Pacific would...
Threatened rather than controlled by Japan, The Netherlands East Indies would, if cut off, leave the U. S. with less than a year's supply of rubber and not much more tin. Rubber futures jittered upwards to 20.4? a lb. in U. S. markets last week; black pepper to 3.86? a lb. Wool futures also rose to $1.175 a lb., implicating Australia. Unquoted on any organized market, but nonetheless crucial to U. S. defense, was quinine, of which the U. S. has none too much on hand. Practically all cinchona bark (from which quinine is made) comes from...
Economically the French kept Indo-China in swaddling clothes. They had done little with the colony's extensive deposits of iron ore, tin, antimony, wolframite, manganese and zinc. But from the concentrated cultivation of rice and rubber and the sale to the natives of manufactured goods made in France, more than three billion francs went to France from Indo-China every year. The native standard of living remained one of the lowest in the world. The harvest of this policy was hate. A recent straw vote taken in a native high school revealed that, of 300 boys, only...
...tinny, airplanes zoomed, firecrackers popped, a military band zing-boomed past but everyone thought the concert was swell. The evening shindig filled the Coliseum (capacity 15,000) and Festival Hall (3,000), left more than 5,000 people clamoring outside. For the 33 numbers on the program, ASCAP and Tin Pan Alley had shot the works. Composers like Jerome Kern and Sigmund Romberg played the piano. Old (78) Carrie Jacobs Bond accompanied a singer in her End of a Perfect Day, and launched her latest effort, The Flying Flag. Old W. C. Handy played his St. Louis Blues...