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...move by Japan is the exposure of her northern flank to an attack by Soviet Russia. Russia has tested this flank several times since the Sino-Japanese War began, and each time had managed to draw Japanese strength away from the attack on China. As Japan bogged deeper in the China Incident she grew less & less antagonistic toward Russia, and lately the Japanese have been downright friendly. Last month the old Manchukuo-Outer Mongolia frontier dispute was settled with considerable backing-down by Japan. Last week that part of the Japanese press which is closest to the Foreign Office began...
Last week Pittsburgh was thick with smoke again, and J. & L. was working at 94.5% of capacity. Patient H. E. Lewis seized the opportunity to hedge. Against the day when heavy steel would yield once more to light, he went deeper into light-by buying the tin-plate division of independent McKeesport Tin Plate Corp. Price: around $3,000,000, which included good will, a euphemism doubtless meaning that J. & L. will probably get the lion's share of tin-plate orders from McKees-port's can factories. Meanwhile, Wall Street anticipated a shower of back-dividend payments...
...Congress Representative Overton Brooks God-blessed America, told his colleagues: "When . . . we hear Kate Smith on the radio, every red-blooded American feels a deeper admiration and a greater love for the last republic in the entire world...
...Government must resign. The Australian crisis is urgent and the Government is only dragging us deeper into it. . . . Instead of defending Australian shores many Australian troops are stranded in the Middle East, with their lines of communication threatened. Others are stationed in England where there still exists an army of unemployed men who could easily be converted into soldiers. . . . All our industries should be nationalized and controlled by the Government. The Government complains of a shortage of skilled workers, while there are 160,000 registered unemployed. The wide powers given to Mr. Menzies, as Minister for Munitions, to marshal skilled...
...Victor Emanuel, one of the nimblest quarterbacks on the financial football field. Both were units - Vultee 60% owned, Stinson 100% - in his tangled Aviation Corp. holding company system - Aviation & Transportation Corp., Aviation Manufacturing Corp., etc. (TIME, Feb. 19). News men, noting the low price Vultee paid, therefore looked for deeper meanings in the Vultee-Stinson deal...