TRUST GROUP BUYS SHIPBUILDING UNIT; Tri-Continental and Others in Acquisition of $73,000,000 Newport News Concern OFFERING OF STOCK SEEN Buyers From Huntington Heirs Expected to Sell Two-thirds of 100,000 Shares Held
Date: 08 May 1940
With others buys Newport News Shipbldg & Dry Dock Corp
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France Lacks News
Date: 08 May 1940
By G.H. ARCHAMBAULT Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES
G. ARCHAMBAULT
France: lack of news discussed
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Advertising News and Notes
Date: 08 May 1940
G L Sumner urges more imagination, less invention
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FINANCIAL MARKETS; Stocks Close Irregularly Lower, as Trading Dwindles; Uncertain European Situation Dominates Day's News
Date: 07 May 1940
N Y free-market rate on £ hits new low since Mar, 1933
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HUNGARY REPORTS DEMAND BY REICH; Right to Send Troops Through Country Asked, Official News Agency Hears
Date: 08 May 1940
Hungary admits Germany sought troop passage permit; Brit reptd seeking Balkan defensive alliance including Mediterranean Fleet and Near East armies aid in event Axis powers attack; Sofia Utro reveals Ital-German plan to send forces into Balkans if Allies make any moves; Yugoslav-USSR trade talks reptd shifting to pol subjects; Abp Stepinac leaves for Rome to rept to Pope; Hungarian press warns that isolated neutrality is not possible; gives evidence of solidarity with Axis powers; Yugoslavia builds new border defenses; Turkey sends reinforcements to Dardanelles; Rumania masses troops in Dobruja; Knatchbull-Hugessen reptd urging Bulgarian adherence to defensive alliance
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