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Slowly but inexorably plantation rubber production climbed. It was only three years after the orgiastic peak of the Amazon Valley boom, in 1913, that plantation rubber production overtook wild. Always superior because of controlled quality, it pushed wild rubber from expanding markets till, in the peak year of 1934, out of a world production of 1,019,000 tons Brazil contributed but 9,000 tons, a catastrophic 0.89%. In Iquitos, Peru, upriver from Manaus, docks fell into disrepair. Manaus grew clean and hungry. The State of Amazonas defaulted both internal and external debt regularly each year...
Great Britain last week totted up how much it costs to fight Adolf Hitler, found if September's weekly peak expenditures of ?70,000,000 were maintained the year would close with Britain ?3,570,000,000 "out of pocket." To make up the difference between ?70,000,000 weekly outgo and estimated tax revenues of ?30,000,000 weekly, ?20,000,000 was coining in from subscription to war issues, ?10,000,000 from sale of gold and securities abroad and the rest from customers' deposits lent by joint stock banks to the Treasury. Orthodox Economist...
...urban real-estate men for years, it became a reality with the 1940 Census figures. Since 1930, while suburbs gained population, most mother cities gained less or none at all (TIME, Sept. 30). Realistic realtors at last concluded that the big cities, relatively speaking, had passed their population peak...
...went to Paris. There everybody's morale was fine. Everybody said: "Il faut en finir"-"This time we must put an end to it." "So many Frenchmen said: 'Anyone can see that if Hitler doesn't attack now, at the peak of his strength, he's doomed.' And when you asked: 'Then why doesn't he attack now?' they replied, with vast Gallic shrugs, 'Undoubtedly because he knows he's doomed anyway.' So, the stalemate on the western front was widely explained as 'Hitler's realization...
...available. Blood seems to have answered the Jeffs' kicking problem while Sweeny and Slingerland, the latter out of action all last year due to scholastic deficlencies, took care of the serial display. Mulroy, also forced to serve as bench ballast in '39 by injuries, seems destined to reach the peak predicted for him last year, turning in a brilliant bit of work against Hobart...