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...coast dimout are those held at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field and Manhattan's Polo Grounds, where the Dodgers and Giants now play at twilight instead. Some big-league stars have walked off to war; many more will follow. But up from the minors have come a bumper crop of rookies who have helped fans forget the Greenbergs, Fellers, Padgetts, Travises...
China Will Eat. It is not likely that China will collapse from economic chaos alone. The terrible food problem, which last year infected every section of society, is no longer a problem. Bumper spring wheat crops and almost certain good fall crops of rice have not only assured maximum essentials for army and civil servants' consumption centers but are likely to leave a surplus. The success of Government price control is seen in the fall of prices of rice and wheat flour since the Dragon Boat Festival (May 5), a period when prices usually rise. The food structure seems...
...sugar-beet crop is expected to be bumper; more sugar has been imported from Hawaii than was thought possible; huge crops are also available in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Sugar men are having trouble storing extra sugar. Surpluses are stacked up out of doors, in vacant lots, under canvas, in danger of ruin. A large Gulf Coast refinery had to refuse a sugar shipment for lack of storage space. Sales for household canning have fallen below expectations -housewives loathe the red tape involved...
...total is still in storage even as this year's wheat hits the market. Besides this, Canada has a 400,000,000-bu. surplus, Argentina has half as much again waiting hopelessly for ships. To top everything, U.S. farmers this year will raise a bumper 868,000,000 bu. (weather permitting). Result: Western Hemisphere wheat supplies, already huge, will be utterly fantastic...
...year could be slashed to 21,000,000 acres v. the present 55,000,000-acre legal minimum. Such a cut would require a Congressional O.K., something most Washington dopesters class with a trip to the moon. In 1943, therefore, the U.S. Government is likely to pay for another bumper wheat crop it does not need and cannot store. Meanwhile, Leon Henderson's assurance that wheat rationing is not immediately likely remains the year's greatest understatement...