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...interest and that the payments by the Government of the U.S.S.R. do not commence until five years after the war's conclusion and be completed over a ten-year period thereafter. I hope that special efforts will be arranged by your Government to sell us the available raw materials and commodities which the United States may need...
...would be advantages of peace as obvious to Japanese statesmen as to the U.S. To the U.S. they included resumption of trade with Japan, freedom to use the Pacific Fleet in the Atlantic. To Japan they included resumption of trade with the U.S. (access to the oil and other raw materials that Japan badly wants) and an alliance against Germany's world aims, which are a threat to Japan...
Swinging into what he admits to be "map diagnoses and prognoses of sick nations," Professor Hooton had a lot to say on almost every important European country. Russia, he maintains, has adequate raw material with which to form a good and peaceable society. "The trouble is that it is too raw," he added. The severity of the Czarist-regime forced of liquidation of the powerful elements of pre-Communist Russia he asserted. The result of this process has been the rise of "paranoid and sadistic dictators who have created a despotism far worse than was that of the Czars--more...
This is not the first time that silk has seriously troubled Japan. Between 1930 and 1934 U.S. depression and the world onset of rayon (which had most of silk's qualities except elasticity) forced raw-silk prices down from $7 to $1.30 a pound. Japan found partial solutions to the problem. She went off gold, restricted silk production and greatly increased her small domestic silk consumption. She built up her own rayon industry until it approached her silk business, became the world's No. 1 rayon producer...
...than most U.S. businesses. The foreign markets have practically vanished, but the fears never materialized. Domestic theater receipts have more than made up the differences, will touch $1,100,000,000 this year - equal to the record made in 1930. Furthermore, Hollywood has little fear of priorities. Its chief raw material - talent - is just as scarce as ever, but no scarcer...