Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-03-27 | Page 20 | Slickers Provide War Laughs

Slickers Provide War Laughs Suoeulatlon allckora art providing provid-ing tho forotfn buyors with snough laugha to rollovo tho tension of tha (rim business. Shortly after tho French and British missions set up shop they ran Into the typo of Individual who has " options all sewed up. Tha total loss to the optionholders la estimated to run Into tha many hundred thousands -because In not a tingle Instance did they bother to find out what the buyers wanted. One operator Journeyed to New York after having tied up the used tire surplus of every dealer In his midwest city. Another owned soma 30,000 oaken kegs, holdovers from the Volstead era, which he auggested would be dandy for shipping ship-ping gunpowder. But the one to whom the buyers give tho laurel wreath la the veterinarian who guaranteed to limit France's mule-buying mule-buying to Ifrst costs; his specific waa guaranteed to make them produce pro-duce progeny. On the other side of the fence there Is the enterprising westerner who offered German officials an assortment of ferryboats the ones that were retired by the building ef the San Franclaco bay bridges. They were shallow draft, he explained, ex-plained, and Just right for convert slon Into freighters for traffic on . the Danube.