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...cannot save China. Japan knew that we could not do so. A realistic view of the present situation would indicate that a cessation of fighting would save more lives and prevent further useless destruction. Does it make any practical difference to us who owns the rubber and the tin, provided we can trade with the owner? If we do not like the owner, then again the only argument worth making is still an argument that can be backed up by force...
Married. Sonja Henie, 30, chubby, figure-skating cinemactress, ice-revue star; and Sportsman Daniel Reid Topping, 29, tin-plate heir, principal stockholder of the Brooklyn Dodgers professional football team; she for the first time, he for the third; in Chicago. Choked Sonja: "I have never been so happy...
...materials, appropriated a mere $10,000,000 for the project. Hence the Government stock piles last week were mere mounds. Particularly inadequate were its stores of two materials whose immediate supply depends on the Far East: rubber (30,000 tons; U. S. 1939 consumption nearly 600,000 tons) and tin (6,124 tons; U. S. normal peacetime consumption 82,000 tons...
...week: Rubber Reserve Co. (half of whose capital will be put up by the rubber makers) and Metals Reserve Co. To the former it planned to lend $65,000,000 to buy 150,000 tons of rubber; to the latter $100,000,000 to acquire 75,000 tons of tin and other strategic metals. London reacted promptly to the new demand, the international tin cartel upped its export quota from 100 to 130% of standard (or at the rate of 271,661 tons a year), a new high; the rubber cartel from 80 to 85% (1,131,160 tons...
...Strategic materials to burn. The Allies controlled about one-quarter of the world's copper, more than half its rubber, about 40% of its tin, one-third its zinc, practically all its nickel...