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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Hitler's victims, unless U. S. public opinion forced such a step. Neither did the U. S. Red Cross, which up to last week had distributed about $8,000,000 to stricken Europe, hardly knew what to do with the balance of a $20,000,000 relief fund (except to continue helping Great Britain, perhaps send medical supplies, baby food, etc. to unoccupied France). And Washington had no doubts about what Britain would say, if she were asked to give up the blockade, her best weapon against the Nazis. Back from a secret mission to London on behalf...
British Somaliland looks and feels like a cross between the Montana badlands and Death Valley. Except in the mountains near the coast, which rise as high as 6,500 ft. in a wall behind Berbera, it rains only 2½ inches per year. In July and August a hot, dry monsoon blows from the blazing Ethiopian hinterland. Nothing grows in British Somaliland except thorn trees, dense dry "bush" and tough desert fodder to keep alive the nomadic natives' herds of sheep, goats, camels, ostriches...
...Tiger fans. Buck Newsom-also known as Bo-Bo and the Old Showboat-is the big cat's whiskers. At training camp last spring, he noisily announced: "The Yanks are a bunch of softies who have scared everybody except Old Bo-Bo half to death. All we need to win the pennant is some extra good pitching and I'll supply that...
...young to become board chairman, Lou Maxon has had no title since. Keeping 53% of his firm's stock, he sold 5%, gave the rest to old employes. Although his agency is now the Middle West's biggest, he has no new business department (except himself). Wary of prima donnas, he makes all of his executives write advertising copy, writes all of the institutional copy himself. Sample: the current Heinz campaign, which is based on Maxon's boyhood reminiscences. Last year Adman Maxon drew $98,000 salary. In the personal income-tax figures for the whole...
...price-hawk is Economist Leon Henderson, met 17 pulp & paper men (including Richard J. Cullen, president of vast International Paper & Power Co.) in Manhattan, got an agreement for no further rises. Both sides agreed on one important fact: total U. S. pulp-producing capacity is enough for all needs, except for a few specialties. Then, said the Commission, there is no excuse for carrying pulp prices higher. Pulpmen agreed that further price changes should result "only from actual changes in basic costs." Blamed for the pulp squeeze by both sides were "psychological factors"-i.e., hysterical forward buying...