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...many Indians the line between perpetual hunger and real starvation is thin. Last week that line was thinner than ever...
High up in the thin, cold air of the Bolivian Andes, shrewd Mestizo Simón I. Patiño built for himself and his family an empire of tin. It was founded on the peon labor of mountain Indians whose lowly wage offset the high cost of transporting Patiño's ores to world markets. The mines Patiño developed from the original holding he acquired from a debt-ridden Portuguese made him one of the richest men in the world. But last week the manner in which he got his wealth returned, to plague...
...first U.S. radio staffmen to broadcast regularly over the Soviet radio was back home last week and talking last week. CBS's dark, thin Larry Lesueur, 33, rolled into Russia via Archangel a year ago. Onetime United Press reporter, he had covered the R.A.F. in France from war's outbreak through Dunkirk, the London blitz as apprentice to CBS's Edward R. Murrow. In talking about Russian radio Lesueur told a lot about Russia...
Proud of its production, Studebaker is also proud of something else: its profit margins on Government contracts are paper-thin. In 1923 the company earned 10% on sales, in 1941 about 2%, this year less than...
...Japanese attack would be the city of Kunming, at the top of the Burma Road. There U.S. ferry planes from General Elmer Edward Adler's India-based Army Air Forces refuel. The closing of the Burma Road itself had clamped a terrible constriction on China's thin lines of supply. Japa nese occupation of Yunnan would draw the cord tighter, could even throttle China...