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...Shah is in a sticky economic position as he had already paid for certain German goods and services before the war started. Not all Germans in Iran are fifth columnists; most are technicians. Many work on the Trans-Iranian Railway, which is 870 miles long, was eleven years abuilding and connects the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf. Others run the new iron smelter at Samnan, which hopes to become Iran's Pittsburgh. The Shah can hardly shove these technicians out abruptly without crippling transportation and production...
...Louisiana. He built it into a four-State line and sold it nine years later to Bell Telephone for $1,500,000. He used the money to organize Arkansas Power & Light, built that into a $71,000,000 colossus. Meantime he had acquired large interests in the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway and the Kansas City Southern, consolidated the lines. With his close friend Joe Robinson, late Majority Leader of the Senate, he had Arkansas politics by the short hair. President Hoover made him a director of RFC in 1932, and Roosevelt kept him on till he resigned...
India now manufactures rifles, machine guns, small-arms ammunition, artillery, propellers, blankets, military clothing and boots, rubber tires, railway equipment-some 20,000 separate items of war tackle. She also produces steel and coal, aviation and automobile gasoline, lubricating oils and lumber, has supplied Great Britain with 700,000,000 jute sandbags. A Bombay aircraft factory is expected to start turning out bombers and fighters this month...
...last year) and Great Britain. In the early part of World War II, Japan found a profitable customer in Germany, which sent its No. 1 traveling salesman, Helmuth Wohlthat, to Tokyo this spring to try to streamline Japanese industry and arrange shipments over the Trans-Siberian Railway. But the Russian war has cut off that trade, and Japan is more than ever dependent on the U.S. and Britain...
...Auto chases, abductions, disguises, false passports, the underground railway for refugees...