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...asked his question in a week in which World War II became concrete and real for U. S. citizens-militarily, diplomatically, emotionally. It was a week in which they read graphic reports of the destructive power of the German air fleet and worried discussions of the U. S. in the air-that with its productive plant working at full capacity, the U. S. was still producing only 351 planes (including commercial planes) a month. It was a week when Adolf Hitler, sending his young men on the errands of total war-his soldiers to invade three peaceful countries without warning...
...reach victory in a few months or less, then America is helpless to prevent it. For our forces as they now stand are defensive. We are already doing all we can by shipping planes, as fast as possible, under the cash-and-carry clause to the Allies. Our fleet will not help, for the British have theirs almost intact. What they could use, of course, is a million men. But our nation does not have them ready to offer immediately. They are neither trained nor equipped. So, if we postulate a quick German victory over the Allies...
...normal: $120-125 a ton). At that time blockaded Germany was paying $1,500 a ton for such oil as she could get. This time, Britain contracted to take all the Norwegian oil for margarine. Next autumn, whether Norway is German-dominated or not, her great fleet of whaling ships will be out again in force, and so will those of other whaling nations, except perhaps Germany. In five years Dr. Murphy expects whaling to stop-for the simple reason that commercially useful whales will be so nearly extinct that hunting them will no longer be profitable...
During the first mile, Bimelech looked like a champion. He broke fast, caught up with Joseph Widener's fleet-footed Roman. Down the backstretch, he clung to Roman's heels. Coming around the far turn-where races are usually won or lost-Bradley's green & white silks flashed in front. Roman had faltered. It would be a breeze for Bimelech from...
...cracking the anti-expropriation front of the U. S. oil industry. Yet U. S. oilmen, whose troubles are their own, did not expect either of these events immediately to help or hurt them much. For Britain, which can at any time add the better part of Norway's fleet of 272 tankers to her own, can haul its Near East oil around the Cape of Good Hope, and is not likely to spend precious foreign exchange buying U. S. oil until she has to. And while Sinclair's deal...