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What nationality? Maybe they were Swiss, Afghan or Bolivian, chortled the President, who presumably was aware that Canada has no submarines. Franklin Roosevelt then told his questioners not to get too nosey, left them to guess: 1) Why he could not say flatly that the sub marines were German, or 2) Why, if he lacked positive information, he said anything...
...many men the booming aircraft industry (see p. 63) was hiring was anyone's guess, but Glenn L. Martin's Baltimore plant has already taken on 4,000 men in three months...
...consumption is 100,000 tons. Reserves approximate 200,000 tons. Big shipments from South America were detained by Britain. Three Belgium-bound shiploads of barley from North Africa were unloaded in France. Seven thousand tons of maize, destined for Antwerp, were unloaded at Lisbon. It was too early to guess how Belgium's Congo mines would fare. Meantime, while Belgian purchasing commissions raced to London, Paris, Berlin, The Hague, New York, two German purchasing agents rushed to Brussels...
...population. . . . Farm electrification statistics of the various countries are not fully comparable. Foreign farms reported as having electric service are not all actually taking it, since in some cases communities are considered as having electric service if a transmission line comes within two kilometres of the village. I would guess that in one of the countries that has been reported as being over 90% electrified not more than half of the villagers are actually taking the service. . . . H. S. BENNION...
...over its booming 1938 figures. Last week President Mack ventured to say that for the first eight months of this year net profits would pass record 1938 (when the net was $3,240,000). Still selling far below big Coca's bottle volume (the trade's best guess: 18-25% of it), Pepsi-Cola's twelve-ounce bottles (Coca-Cola: six ounces) have done best in New York City. In its first full-page newspaper ads fortnight ago, Pepsi-Cola announced it had outsold "any other Cola drink in bottles" by more than 50% in the metropolitan...