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...Germany becomes mistress of the seas is inherent in the U. S.'s greatest strategic liability: South America. Caught by World War II on the point of taking a major place in world trade, "the Continent of the 20th Century" is more a half-completed duplicate than a complement of the U. S. economy. Of all her major exports, agricultural and mineral, the U. S. takes only one: coffee. Yet of the coffee production of the Brazilian plantations, the U. S. can use only 57%. The rest, if coffee raisers are to thrive, must be sold in world trade...
...Navy. Next to be launched is the 35,000-ton North Carolina next week (at the Brooklyn Navy Yard). But launching is not completion: not before December 1941 will the Washington be fitted with her nine 16-inch guns, her secondary batteries of twelve five-inchers, her complement of eight antiaircraft guns. By official confession, ships so far along in construction cannot be altered to benefit in full from the antiaircraft lessons taught by World War II. Washington VI nonetheless is far ahead of Washington V: longer (125 ft.); 16-inch armor (instead of tapering from 16 to 14 inches...
...inevitable complement to the wartime phenomenon of brief home leaves from France has been the desire of young soldiers to pack into a short time enough fun to provide months of front-line memories. Nightclub and theatre promoters have been quick to capitalize-until by last week nudity had become almost a commonplace in English entertainment...
...feel that the business training and the many connections we have had with business men while working on the business board will be a valuable complement to our studies when we leave college." they agreed...
...another Nazi-Bolshevik trade treaty had been signed which, Nazi officials boasted, would give Germany all the imports she needs to defeat the purposes of the Allied blockade. The Russians were not less boastful in pointing out that Russia's raw materials and Germany's industrial plants complement each other...