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...pipeline deal, so far only an "agreement in principle," provides that the Government will get its money back in 25 years of service charges, will also have a 50-year option on oil at a discount...
...venture is set for four weeks, with an option. Whatever happens, it's a great break for honest, uncompromising Jazz. The band is fearless--anyone asking for a waltz will be politely informed that a dozen choruses of "Basin Street Blues" is much better for the nerves, and all requests for rhumbas will be filled with "Riverboat Shuffle...
...W.C.T.U.) has continually and noisily nagged Congress for immediate nationwide prohibition. But another group, shrewdly piloted by the politically seasoned Anti-Saloon League and the potent Methodist Board of Temperance, prefers to work quietly and without publicity in a campaign to dry up individual counties through local-option laws and gradually elect Congressmen favorable to their cause. Many of the nation's 100-odd dry organizations energetically employ both techniques...
...high for Brazil's low exchequer. Later, Brazil resumed paying interest. But it was so low the bondholders complained and chivvied Brazil into the new plan, which covers $838,000,000 in dollar and sterling bonds. Under this plan all bondholders have a choice of 1) Option A, under which the face value of the bonds remains the same, but interest is slashed in half or more, 2) Option B, under which the value of the issues is cut from 20% to 50% and interest is reduced. But bondholders get a lump sum up to 17% of the bonds...
Henry Ford, 80, still brimming confidence, announced that at war's end he will take up the option Ford Motor Co. holds on the Government-owned Willow Run plant and build there huge multiple-engined, cargo-passenger airplanes "of unique design." The company discreetly hinted that Employe Charles A. Lindbergh's experiments "may influence the design of the new plane." The sky Ford of the future (small models have been built) is being designed to land in relatively small space, to operate at a fraction of present big-plane flying cost. It is to be "as positively safe...