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...establishing food stockpiles on various Caribbean islands and helping to further a hop-skip-and-jump transportation route which makes use of schooners between the islands. But even some of the schooners, which can make the runs between the islands in daylight, had been machine-gunned by subs. And AMA had made fantastic and grievous mistakes: it sent 3,000 bags of sugar to Puerto Rico (where 400,000 tons are awaiting export); it ordered private exporters to move all flour from gulf ports, then set up its own flour stockpiles in the same ports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stepchild's Hunger | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...July 1 AMA will be stuck with a billion cans-with no place to send them and no way yet approved to keep 40,000,000 more cans from pouring into its warehouses week in & week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHORTAGES: Jinn 'n' Milk | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Last year the British were crying for evaporated milk under Lend-Lease, so AMA set out to boost U.S. production from 57.000,000 cases a year to 100,000,000 by the simple device of bidding the price up from $2.63 to $3.55 a case. The price mechanism worked like magic; the goal was reached almost overnight. Then the British found powdered milk could be shipped in one-quarter the space, said they could take only 7,000,000 cases, left AMA holding the bag and afraid of creating a minor panic by getting out of the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHORTAGES: Jinn 'n' Milk | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...splendid palace on the peninsula of Yamato, the mighty Emperor Jimmu celebrated his various successful aggressions by offering up sacrifices to Ama-terasu-Ö-mi-Kami, sometimes known as the Sun Goddess, his great-great-grandmother. Thus was founded (so Japanese chroniclers say) the Empire of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Empire and Humanity | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...past five months, two moves in the Good Neighbor (or Hemisphere Solidarity) policy of Franklin Roosevelt were to raise Colombia and Venezuela, the two countries on South America's northern corner, from ministerial to ambassadorial status in U. S. diplomatic ranking. Last week the State Department promoted Pan ama President Roosevelt named as U. S. Ambassador there his Minister to Uruguay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Panama Promoted | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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