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...moderate President Manuel Avila Camacho, the problem has ramifications unknown in the U.S. Mexico's small, widely scattered population centers and poor communications make effective rationing impossible. Speculation has wrecked all attempts at price control. Said
Senator Rafael Avila, head of Mexico's Truman Committee: "Nobody but a superman could solve the whole problem...
Last week kindly, determined President Avila Camacho took supermannish steps to bring the cost of living and income into line. He ordered: 1) measures to increase production of corn and sugar; 2) another attempt to freeze basic food prices...
...Avila Camacho ordered 250,000 acres on the tropical coasts planted in corn, the planting of more corn on lands not used for sugar. Border states put a stricter watch on bootlegged corn liquor trickling across to the whiskey-short U.S. Sole purchaser of corn will be the Government, which will distribute it on a zonal basis...
...since lived alone in a luxurious rented house in Mexico City's suburb of Chapultepec. He affects Byronic collars, horn rimmed harlequin spectacles, and usually looks fatigued. He is proud of a sumptuous gold hand-carved wrist watch given him last New Year's by President Avila Camacho. Its twin was presented to President Roosevelt...