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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coal and textiles ranked high among Sweden's imports from Germany, iron ore and timber were her chief exports to Germany. With coal production in the Saar reduced by France's cannon, and coal deliveries down the Rhine and out of Amsterdam blockaded, Sweden was glad to contract for British coal. With German manufacturers offering more & more ersatz materials, Sweden was glad to shift to British textiles. Britain was glad to buy Swedish timber (cellulose for explosives) and the high-grade hematite ore which Sweden used to barge to Germany from the Norwegian port of Narvik (now subject...
...Coulee area of Oregon and Washington is far from eastern and midwestern markets; freighting costs are high. Private utilitarians pointed out that they had tried for years to overcome these handicaps. Asked how Federal amateurs could expect to do better, Paul Raver's retort was the Aluminum Co. contract. "A nice Christmas present," he called it. He now expects to convince many more processors (chiefly of metals and chemicals) that they can save enough with ultracheap power to pay for the long hauls of raw materials and finished goods...
...result of 37 broadcasts since January 1939, the Building Fund has been enriched by $370,000-and Gulf has had the most impressive guest-star parade any radio sponsor ever got for his money. By June, close of the present season's contract, the radio program will have brought in $540,000, to add to some $90,000 previously collected. So the Fund hopes to start construction this year, on the broad green pasture of the San Fernando Valley, of a building with recreation halls, a big dining room, a dispensary, surrounded by cottages, to be named after...
...John Boettiger, married a year to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's daughter Anna, signed a contract to run Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Last week his contract was renewed, to run until...