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...Shipments to Russia included 13,500 tons of aluminum, 11,700 tons of lead, 1,500 tons of nickel, 120,000 tons of flour, 10,000 tons of wheat. Many Russian merchantmen were serviced and repaired in Canadian ports...
...Australia got aid worth $20,959,845 (including the training of R.A.A.F. men at Canadian airfields). Other expenditures for China, $4,101,587; the West Indies, $874,478 (all flour); India, $482,192 (all wheat...
There is no money on the island, and trade is carried on by barter. The U.S. and British soldiers can get a chicken for two pounds of flour, three eggs for a pound of rice. They live in the farmhouses, where housewives serve their meals, wash their clothes. By day they play soccer with the island men, who are remarkably good and usually beat them. By night they gather in barns with Partisan girls, dance by lantern light to the music of accordions and guitars...
...swayed and stomped in frenzy. When the hour came for the immemorial roast-pork feast there was not enough to go around: him hungry Japan man had combed the jungle clean of wild pigs. But him white fella man more than made up the lack with bully beef and flour. Never in fuzzy-wuzzy memory had there been a finer sing-sing...
...director of some 60 British companies, he sums up his accomplishments in twelve lines in the British Who's Who. In this respect he is just four times as expansive as his fabled father, "England's Richest Man," Joseph ("Old Joe") Rank, who parlayed a tiny flour mill into a ?20-30,000,000 milling fortune, and died at 89 last month (TIME, Nov. 22). Besides his millions and his milling business, Old Joe handed down his passion for the Methodist faith and a shrewd and tidy sense of how to piece together an indus trial empire...