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...best information correspondents could get, would not be to seize Bessarabia but to give Bulgaria strong support to demand from Rumania the return of Dobruja. Dobruja is a province that Bulgaria lost to Rumania in 1913. Bulgaria has undertaken to barter almost her whole exportable surplus of raw materials to Germany, thus is economically to a great extent under Adolf Hitler's thumb, and the Balkans feared that Russia and Germany would try a "pressure pincers" on Rumania. King Carol, alarmed, conferred with Rumanian political leaders of all parties in an effort to get "national union" support...
Bohrod is a naive realist whose paintings are mostly of common scenes around Chicago. In greens, reds, blues that are raw but seldom harsh, he paints sleazy streets of ramshackle houses, old women haggling at a fruit stand, batting practice in the Cubs' ball park (where he once sold score-cards), knobby bathers by Lake Michigan. Says he: "The shabbier parts of Chicago are what intrigue me." Less intrigued is Mrs. Frank Granger Logan ("Sanity in Art"), who stormed "It isn't worth a nickel," when a Bohrod picture of a filling station won top honors...
Goodyear's credo: "We stand for prices as low as manufacturing efficiency, economical distribution and raw material costs permit-prices productive of wider sales and wider employment." Litchfield's challenge: "That is the way to economic stability, which should be the goal of every responsible business leader at this time...
...Treasurer McCormack sold 14 of their old (19-21 years) Hog Island cargo ships to the Brazil Government. For Brazil it was a good deal. It stepped up her Government-owned Lloyd Brasileiro Line fleet to 62 ships, gave her urgently needed bottoms for carrying her coffee and raw materials overseas now that war has swept most belligerents' ships from the seas...
...inventory recession is inevitable. In this delicate situation, the outcome, he estimated, would be determined by whether businessmen encourage buying by holding prices down or discourage buying by boosting prices. He pointed out that although the U. S. is short of neither materials, labor, nor capital, the prices of raw materials have ominously risen 10% since August...