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...from themselves and selling talent to themselves and charging the talent a commission. Last week, in a hasty effort to avoid at least one future headache, CBS sold, subject to ratification, its Columbia Artists. Inc. to Music Corporation of America for a reputed $250,000. NBC was dickering to unload for the reputed same amount its Program Talent Sales and Concerts Division on William Morris Agency, Inc., oldest genius-peddling house in the U.S., which can supply anything from Mae West to trained mules...
...British should mount antisubmarine guns and anti-aircraft guns on fast Norwegian ships, let them travel independently as some fast British vessels do now. They could then outrun submerged submarines, outshoot surface ones, and take their chances against air attack. > The British make each ship wait its turn to unload in British ports, regardless of cargo value and ship's speed. The Norwegians want port priorities for fast ships carrying only precious cargo...
...have no exchange with which to buy U. S. cotton. In his plans for cotton's future, Grower Johnston seemed to rely not so much on the revival of world trade as on ersatz technology and the maintenance of a potent growers' lobby in Congress, able to unload its surplus on Uncle Sam - for cash...
Clayton. Farmer Johnston once did an able job for the New Deal. From 1934 to 1937, as the liquidator of the old Hoover Farm Board cotton surplus, he managed to unload some 2,500,000 bales on the market without once breaking the price below 12?. In the process, he made the Treasury a fat profit in futures, and infuriated Broker Clayton who, for the first time in years, had to watch someone else make the market. Johnston also got $363,002,57 in AAA checks for the acres he abandoned from...
...conquests worthwhile. She lost access to Sweden's iron ore, Norway's refined and processed metals, dairy products from Denmark and The Netherlands, Scandinavian timber, Belgian steel, bauxite from France. But so long as she controlled the seas, had bottoms to carry goods in, ports to unload them at, she could call on the Empire and the Americas to replace what the Nazis had taken. In the folds of Britain's Pennine Range were 19% of the world's coal, 8% of its iron ore-enough to keep her basic war industries going...