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...tremendous rate but for a closed national economy. India, which is the second largest cotton producer, and China, where the Japanese are encouraging heavy planting at bayonet-point, need their land for food. In Egypt there is a limited amount of Nile water. Nile soil. Only in Brazil and part of the Argentine are there real possibilities of increasing cotton production to the point where the Cotton Belt could be dropped from the list of world cotton exporters. But those areas lack the South's cheap labor. The threat from the Rust cotton picker (TIME, March 23) or improved...
...back as 1932, he asserted, he had begun writing to Government officials of China, Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Russia begging for employment as an aviation instructor. All turned down his services. Last nation he approached was Japan, asking a $50,000 cash advance, a salary as commander in the Japanese Navy. An unidentified Japanese opened negotiations with him, required evidence of his qualifications for the job. From the Navy Department Farnsworth obtained a batch of photographs showing U. S. battleships. Before turning his own copy of the supposedly secret Navy handbook over to the Japanese, Farnsworth said, he had checked...
...Niceto Alcala Zamora was recently forced to resign as President of (1 Spain, 2 Portugal, 3 Brazil, 4 Cuba, 5 Mexico...
...Plutarco Elias Calles, recently exiled to the U. S., was formerly the "Strong Man" of (1 Brazil, 2 Panama, 3 Mexico, 4 Cuba, 5 Venezuela...
...fiasco was taken only after careful consultation with the leading powers of the southern hemisphere. The Rooseveltian repudiation of the Socony-United Fruit-Chase National policies of Hoover and Coolidge has won favor throughout Hispanic America. It has paved the way for the extremely lucrative reciprocal tariff agreements with Brazil and the Argentine. The latest expression of Latin approval of American policy came in the unanimity of agreement over the impending Pan-American Congress...