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Last week United Fruit Co. announced banana priorities for all celiaca victims, advised parents to write or wire the Fruit Dispatch Co., Pier 3 of Manhattan's North River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Celioc Disease | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Whether a reduction in U.S. official and semi-official bombast would equal the banana reduction remained to be seen. Floridians last week were particularly sensitive. They had seen ships sunk within a few miles of the coast. At one time two burning tankers were in view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Death & Bombast | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...Banana Shortage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Starving at Yale As Food Problem Increases | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...Haven the banana situation also seems to be acute. As if specifically to spite Yale's panicky purchasing agents, the Nazi U-boats have been sinking banana boats along the coasts of the Americas. Yale's favorite fruit has thus almost disappeared from the tables of the Commons and the college halls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Starving at Yale As Food Problem Increases | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Revisitor. In Portland, Ore., for the second time in a year a prowler broke into The Wee Taverne, rifled a pinball machine, ate a banana, drank a bottle of pop and left, undisturbed by the watchdog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 27, 1942 | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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