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Wrote Hothead Belmonte: "We have received all maps showing the most favorable sites for landing. These show me once more that you [Wendler] and your staff are doing excellent preparation for the realization of our plan in favor of Bolivia. . . . We must destroy the tungsten contract with the U.S. . . . Bolivia does not need American loans. With the victory of the German Reich, Bolivia will need only work and discipline. ... I will fly to Brazil upon your advice and take Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, where I have good friends...
Eleanor Roosevelt, whose 15-minute chitsy-chatsy for Sweetheart Soap was sandwiched in between the early afternoon serials last year, will have a better radio spot after mid-September. Signed last week was a contract to put her on the air for a 15-minute talk every Sunday night at 6:45 E.D.S.T. for the Pan-American Coffee Bureau, U.S. representative of seven Latin-American countries which produce about 90% of the coffee consumed...
...midst of a wave of public righteousness Hugo LaFayette Black, then Senator from Alabama with a preternaturally sharp nose for scandals, "exposed" the mail-carrying airlines of the U.S. Black charged that Walter Folger ("High-Hat"*) Brown, Postmaster General under Herbert Hoover, had granted lush mail-subsidy contracts to major airlines, had thus evaded the law requiring competitive bidding for Government contracts. The President did not wait to ask questions. He called in Postmaster General Farley, Attorney General Cummings, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Secretary of War Dern. Then he canceled the airmail contracts and ordered the Army to take over...
Elected President in March, General Peñaranda, no politician, has done his best to steer his brawling country toward democracy and an amiable relationship with the U.S. His biggest coup to date was to negotiate a contract with the U.S. for Bolivia's full output of tungsten, despite the fact that Japan at first made a higher...
...munitions work so far has been supplementary to automobiles, done in small amounts and in new and separate plants. A really big spate of orders will force the conversion of present automaking plants, tools and man power. Chevrolet, which got a new $89,075,000 War Department contract for 1,000 Pratt & Whitney airplane engines a month, has already prepared to convert all of its automobile facilities in Buffalo and Tonawanda to their manufacture. Other orders: To Ford, $140,000,000 for 4,807 Pratt & Whitneys (in addition to 4,236 already on order); to Chrysler...