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...Germans announced that they would not boost the price of the coal, which Italy's industries must have. This may indicate that Germany has somehow figured a way to get enough rolling stock to resume coal shipments to her partner. Since June, Germany's normal shipments of some 1,000,000 tons a month have tapered off almost to nothing...
...with brief exceptions) since World War I. The extra penny, said OPA, would bring out more low-grade ore, help hard-pressed mine owners in the Tri-State zinc region (Missouri/Oklahoma, Kansas) pay wages that would keep miners from shifting to other jobs. One estimate of the likely production boost...
...order 156 21-passenger DC3s; 52 17-passenger Lockheed Lodestars; 20 40-passenger DC4s. U.S. airlines will get these planes on the basis of: 1) number of passengers carried; 2) the condition of flying stock. Since they now own only 346 ships, delivery of the new planes will boost their equipment over the 500 mark, enable them to handle any immediate increase in traffic...
...conference of members from both parties. To them he would put his ideas, weigh their opinions and objections. The decision called for all the statesmanship he possessed. He could risk everything now on one smashing fight to repeal the entire act-which his advisers held would be an enormous boost to the morale of all the world. Or he could move as he has been moving, step by step, whittling the act's barriers away one by one. The first choice would involve great risks. Even defeat was possible. The second choice would mean a shorter step, with victory...
Last year, collections for the two funds amounted to $1,500,000,000. This year they are expected to reach nearly $2,000,000,000. New Dealers would like to boost this levy to $5,000,000,000 a year, put it all at the disposal of the Treasury, use it to pay for defense and figure on pouring money out to labor during the post-war depression. Some of the ways in which they would broaden...