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...Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. To speed the rubber output, broad-shouldered, lion-faced Joâo Alberto Lins de Barros was recruiting 78,000 workers to go up the Amazon trail to the rubber grounds. Joâo Alberto knew that country: back in the '20s he had marched a column of revolutionists against Dictator Arthur da Silva Bernardes through nearly 950 miles of jungle and mountain to the Bolivian border, covering over 30 miles a day. Now he was thinking in terms of a rubber army. With the land of Brazil's Far West opened...
Died. Mrs. Frances Noel Stevens Hall, 68, principal figure in the most exploited murder trial of the '20s, the Hall-Mills case; in New Brunswick, N.J. For weeks in 1926 as many as half a million words a day were written by reporters about the trial. She and her two brothers were tried and acquitted of the murder of her husband, the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, seven years younger than she, and his choir leader (and mistress), Mrs. Eleanor Mills, 33, wife of the sexton, who were found shot to death in a lovers' lane. Plump, dignified, pince...
...that business has made a better deal with the gods than is often supposed. The adventurers of World War I were the profiteers who found the going tough in the post-war reconstruction and when the '20s collapsed. The adventurers of World War II have assuredly been the farm and the labor leaders, whose inheritance yet remains to be decided. But if it is true that he who goes about his job (whether of necessity or of free volition) and gets it done effectively without kicking over the traces is in a sounder position than he who kicks...
...this question the ranks of business began dividing. One school looked back-back to the demobilization of 1918, back to the '20s, back to the labor-government-industry imbroglio of the '30s. The other school, the school typified by Prince of General Electric, by Hoffman of Studebaker, and by Kaiser, looked forward to the creation of post-war jobs and employment ; to a better cooperation with government; to an implementing of Franklin Roosevelt's Atlantic Charter and a system of world security. The issues would not be decided until 1944. But 1943 was not too soon...
Diamond T had bumps aplenty during the fierce competition of the early '20s, but Tilt pulled through by reinforcing his dealer setup, pioneering high-speed trucks, heavy-duty engines, full-floating axles, other engineering improvements. Always a bug on style and comfort, Art snagged many a sale with cosy, heated, cabs, flashy nickel radiators, etc. And Diamond T broadened its line, in 1940 had 40 models ranging from one-ton panel deliveries to giant 15-tonners...