Cotton Policy Faces Solons As Export Subsidy Debated
Washington reports the Agriculture Department, preferring no subsidy, contemplates limited export support to unclog cotton stocks. With U.S. prices pegged at eight cents, rivals Brazil and India gain ground as exports fall. Officials consider a two to three cent subsidy to move five million bales, risking a potential $75 million loss, while storage costs mount.
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Cotton disposal debate stalls export plan in 1940 politics
The debate centers on dumping cotton on world markets to reduce handling costs while upsetting reciprocal trade aims. The State Department opposes dumping, warning it harms Brazil, a neighbor, and the Agriculture Department resists increasing cotton on hand ahead of the 1940 election. Southern senators push a plan to pay farmers to remove cotton from government stock and sell abroad.
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Hollywood Set Scenes Show Mustache Board and Glamour Backstage
Paul Harrison describes a Hollywood sound stage where a "mustache board" pins male extras with spirit rum moustaches for a Stanley Livingstone sequence. Backstage at Paramount's Mai Town theater set, showgirls parade in gold outfits while Edward Arnold poses for publicity stills amid a busy photoshoot environment.
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Africa
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Jack Doyle
Edward Arnold
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Landscape photography tips from early manual prompts
The text discusses composing landscape photos with simple techniques. It advises avoiding equal divisions, using large sky but breaking it with clouds or trees, employing color filters to capture clouds, balancing foreground mass with smaller features, and aiming for pleasing plains and scenes. It asserts landscapes can be enlarged for home decoration and emphasizes practical practice to improve results.
Bulletin board finds and film set mischief
A slice of backstage life shows Equity notices and oddities from a 1917 Tam Filn Company letter, mortgage shot lists, and a garbled poem. A Percheron photo with caption Port O Pal mocks Rochester and Jack Benny. Juanita Quigley saves for a puppy, Spooks misleads, while Dorothy Lamour and Jack Benny try a missing scene as director Mark Sandrich argues over footage and lighting in a cramped sound stage.
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So They Say Unease Grips Nations Across the World
The article notes widespread anxiety among nations leading to heightened vigilance. It suggests such tension could avert or at least delay a looming catastrophe, framing the mood as precautionary and global in scope.
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Fragmented Voice of War Era Testimony
A garbled OCR passage quotes figures such as Pennsylvania State Senator Robert Lee Jacobs and British premier Lloyd George. It mentions monopolistic infection in the steel industry, a Federal Trade Commission report, Dutch settlers, and a housewife named Elizabeth Hussart drawn for jury duty.
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Rye
Broadcaster to Operate Freely Amid FDSS Battle
A broadcaster is set to operate without fear as he faces a confrontation with his fiercest adversaries, including ministers with ties to Elliott Roosevelt, before the Federal Communications Commission.
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Federal Communications Commission
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