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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be flown to Canada; French and other orders flown to New York for crating. With 626 planes ready for shipment in the U. S., with an additional $100,000,000 in plane orders reported on the way, with Canada preparing to buy 1,500 planes in which to begin training 25,000 Empire airmen during 1940, the plane outlook was rosy. Trading in aircraft stocks boomed on the nation's markets; day after day aircraft stocks led in turnover...
...stuff at political algebra. Last week Louisiana's latest Governor gradually unfolded before the lackluster eyes of his citizens a complicated new formula for solidifying his power. At first the succession of events made no sense: only by week's end did the political algebra begin to solve...
...them assured me several times that, as a tank officer, he was the winkle on the pin if war should ever begin in earnest. ... He enjoyed his dark saying as a priceless joke...
...consists of the eleven provincial governments. In eight of them the party has a majority, in one other a strong minority. First move would be for those nine to get a vote of censure of Lord Linlithgow's statement from their respective legislatures ; then resign. After that would begin widespread civil disobedience which might cut off Britain's supply of Indian raw materials. This week, Congress orders went out to the nine strong governments to set machinery moving which might do as much to dislocate Britain's Empire as Herr Hitler's war machine...
...boom production has been greater than consumption and inventories have piled high. Unless belligerents begin to buy on a big scale, or home consumption picks up, an inventory recession is inevitable. In this delicate situation, the outcome, he estimated, would be determined by whether businessmen encourage buying by holding prices down or discourage buying by boosting prices. He pointed out that although the U. S. is short of neither materials, labor, nor capital, the prices of raw materials have ominously risen 10% since August...