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...June 18. Joachim von Ribbentrop and Sir Samuel Hoare sign Anglo-German Naval Treaty...
March 24. Secretary for Overseas Trade Robert Hudson goes to Moscow for Anglo-Soviet trade talks...
Until last week the Anglo-French Purchasing Board has had little to say about U. S. powder, either purchases or plant construction. From the board's offices at 15 Broad Street in Manhattan, the biggest powder deal to leak out involved a loan of $1,427,000 to Atlas Powder Co. for a new plant (TIME, March 25). But last week, while the most explosive battle in world history brought hell back to the Somme, the Allies announced a really big project: a $20,000,000 powder plant ten miles northeast of Memphis, Tenn., near the village of Millington...
Owner of the new mill and of the 5,000-6,000 acres purchased (for around $400,000) is Tennessee Powder Co. Its 1,000 shares of common are owned by the Anglo-French Purchasing Board. This week, while drillers worked on eight artesian wells to furnish 22,000,000 gallons of water a day (equal to Memphis' total daily consumption), engineers swarmed over the ground laying out the sites for more than 100 buildings, widely separated to cut down damage from explosion. Memphis businessmen calculated that when the mill begins operations about Oct. 1 it will employ around...
...Chevrolets at the front last week, including one donated by the New York Stock Exchange, another by the Broadway cast of Life With Father. Forty-four more A. V. A. C. ambulances are in France, will soon go into action. Third such unit was the Anglo-American Ambulance Corps of Cannes, which though under Lord Derby's presidency was sparked by two lively Americans. Philip Christopher Kauffman (whose grandfather helped found the Washington Star) and Francis James, who also used to live in Washington...