Word: wars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burden of Mr. Sargent's anti-war song: It is plain that Britain is systematically and subtly poisoning U. S. minds, hopes to get the U. S. into this war in jig-time. Director of this campaign, says he, is Sir Robert Vansittart, chief diplomatic adviser of the Foreign Office; among its chief agents are Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to Washington. Their U. S. victims to date: President Roosevelt, Ambassadors Joseph Kennedy and William Bullitt, Paul McNutt, the U. S. press, the House of Morgan, the Foreign Policy Association, such educators as Harvard's James...
...Instead of studying stenography (overmanned), girls should learn to operate business machines (undermanned). >The war is likely to help printers, aviation, chemical and railroad workers, is bad for cotton and tobacco farmers...
...date the U. S. public has seen a good many pictures of war-order planes lined up on fields, and shrouded bomber fuselages being loaded on freighters or falling into harbor mud. But aside from aircraft it has seen little concrete evidence of war orders. Last week (see cut) 478 Studebaker trucks on a Staten Island dock in New York Harbor readied for shipment to the Allied Armies, provided the first good view of nonplane war orders in the flesh...
...yards, up 80,000,000. This piling up of inventories is a gamble that retail sales will boom before production declines under inventory pressure. But there was an additional reason for textile activity: England, needing burlap for sandbags, has virtually cleaned out the Calcutta market since the outbreak of war with orders so far totaling 1,000,000,000 bags. The price of raw material for burlap is up from ?18 ($84.24) a ton in August to ?88 (about $344.96). Supplies for the U. S. are limited, not likely to last long. Textile companies are selling low-grade, rough cottons...
...August, zinc sold at 4¾? a Ib. With war, its price rose to 6½? - a rise of 47% which precipitated no end of buying and production for inventory. Then sales began to dry up. Fortnight ago, American Smelting and Refining Co. dropped the price ½? ($10 a ton). Trade pundits guessed that the steel industry-one of the largest consumers of nonferrous metal-would let down production even further after January, and American Metal Market headlined: "The outlook for Metal Prices none too solid...