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Boston is the bull's eye in a huge defense target embracing the entire New England area. Production in Germany of a Nazi version of the flying fortress is reported to be under full steam, and a token bombing of New England calculated to panic its people and production would be far from unlikely in case...
...rumored that wily German Ambassador Franz von Papen (see p. 102) had tried to save his own foxy countenance by requesting a token shipment of 2,500 tons of chrome at once. But this contract, with its never-never quality, was the best that Germany could...
Cordell Hull: Mexico would make a $9,000,000 ''token payment" (made possible by U.S. loans and credits of much more than that) to the oil companies. The money would be placed in escrow pending valuation of the properties by two experts-one from Mexico, one from...
...true that much of their cash investment in Mexico has long since been paid off in oil, or written off as a bad debt. But the real value of the properties lies in oil beneath the ground. With Mexico denying their "subsoil rights" (or canceling them with a token payment), they shudder to think what might happen in other countries. In Venezuela, Colombia, elsewhere in & outside the Hemisphere, oil companies have investments that make their Mexican properties look like peanuts...
...toploftical as that. What he really yearns for is a compromise already offered by his company: a long-term operating contract for the companies, after which the properties would revert in tola to Mexico. Failing that, he would rather preserve his principles and his face than accept a token payment...