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...mentioned by Mexico's President might include: 1) further U.S. purchases of Mexican silver, to help stabilize the peso; 2) U.S. tariff concessions on Mexican products, to help redress Mexico's unfavorable trade balance ; 3) a trade agreement to assure Mexico a supply of U.S. machinery and raw materials* 4) settlement of such tiny but touchy international issues as the boundary dispute between Mexico and the U.S. over the Chamizal territory (about one square mile) on the Texas border...
...Connecticut they found a big black woman who was "something called Baptist," tried chewing raw tobacco leaf, discovered they were being "kidded" when other youngsters in school asked them if they wanted Germany to win the war. School patriotism threw them into a flat spin. They thought at first the mumbled words of the salute to the flag meant "Routine and Justice...
...inflation than with any past quarrels with Leon. Editorialized the American Metal Markets: "For the edification of those Congressmen who are enjoying their verbal tilts with Leon Henderson, it might not be amiss to present a picture of the No. 1 defense industry-steel-suffering from lack of raw material because committeemen delay . .. price authority and suitable penalties. . . . It may be that Mr. Henderson is not temperamentally the best man . . . but his honesty, patriotism and ruggedness are beyond question. . . . Price chaos in many industries is at [Congress'] doorstep...
...Regional free trade, and free access to raw materials for every nation...
Last week a bomb dropped on this comparative industrial paradise. OPM still remained, precariously, in the "no squawks" category, but OPACS was now, according to one radio bigwig, "a bunch of goddam, nitwitted, half-baked college graduates." Reason: a new civilian allocation order for plastics raw materials (induced by an OPM priorities order on formaldehyde, other chemicals, and their synthetic resins). The order eliminated their use for radio cabinets, 40% of which are now made of plastics...