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In 1931 Pan Am began to feel the squeeze. First its domestic crude supplies and pipe lines were sold to a Standard of Indiana subsidiary. Next, in 1932, all Pan Am's foreign holdings were sold. The purchaser: Standard of New Jersey, which got the famed Lago properties and...
The risks probably did outweigh the gains. But so, perhaps, did necessity outweigh choice. Hitler could have nailed down his Swedish iron supply by sending a small shock army to Lulea after the Bothnian ice goes out next month. Perhaps he was forced into the Norwegian adventure prematurely by Allied...
During the past two years the Japanese have bought up large real-estate holdings in order to control more votes. Three weeks ago they announced they would run five instead of the usual two Japanese candidates. They hoped to marshal enough votes to oust three British Councilmen, elect the three...
Meanwhile, a few solvent roads, spurred by examples like Erie and New Haven, made progress in voluntary debt-reduction programs of their own. Great Northern, which has cut its fixed charges by $5,200,000 since 1934, dickered last week for a $20,000,000 RFC loan to help it...
Told by their Anthropology instructor, Marshall T. Newman, to take measurements of 25 people at random in order to classify them racially, Gould and Cooney used terms from "ace flatng" to "alf prog" and simply "squeeze" to measure everything from the curvature of the hair to the shape of the...