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From Paris via Switzerland, whither he fled from his onetime friends, the Nazis, German Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen prophesied the fall of Hitler "once the German people understand how they have been betrayed." Said he: "Never was a war so recklessly started and with less industrial preparation...
...night last week B. F. Goodrich Co. gave a party in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Its climax: Goodrich President John Lyon Collyer parted blue plush curtains to reveal a map of the world. On it a line of green neon lights traced the rubber route from Singapore, via Suez and the Mediterranean, to the U. S. and Goodrich's Akron plant. Traveling the rubber route with President Collyer's warning words was a small cardboard boat. In mid-Atlantic, a loud explosion blew...
...Shirer, whose talks from Berlin have established him as the ablest newscaster of them all. Roving assistants to Grandin in Paris were Eric Sevareid, once editor of the Paris Herald, Larry Leseur, a U. P. man'until he joined Columbia, Mary Marvin Breckinridge, who graduated into radio newscasting via Vassar and photography. Edwin Har-trich, a onetime Herald Tribune man who covered for Columbia the invasions...
...Canada today carries more freight by air than any other country, may well become "the air crossroads of the world." From London to Shanghai via Newfoundland, Edmonton, Alaska, the Bering Straits and Siberia is 4,000 miles shorter than via the route now flown from New York across the Pacific...
Nastier burns were suffered by underwriters of two issues in the U. S.'s most up-&-coming industry-aviation. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's Eastern Air Lines came to the market May 27 via Smith, Barney & Co. (which is still licking the wounds left by the ill-fated Pure Oil issue in the 1937 bear market). In April Eastern had gone up above 44 on the big pre-panic move in airline stocks, early in May was still there. The new issue offered 110,909 shares to stockholders at $32 when it was around 39 on the market. Last...