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...operation, flew into Washington to report to ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman. The essence of his report was that EGA in China was doing all right. That is, economic aid was being delivered in fair amounts (299,065 bales of cotton by the end of September, 17,800 long tons of flour and 94,000 long tons of rice by early October). Lapham seemed to feel also that the whole job was being carried out in a businesslike, American fashion...
...just had a cup of flour among the five of us. The closest town was several days away, but there might be food on top of the mountain--7000 feet up through snow and storm. Then again, there might...
...field they climbed into a C-54, one of three waiting in a queue. They checked over the plane, took a look at the cargo-flour and condensed soup...
...Department of Agriculture had grown hoarse trying to explain the Alice-in-Wonderland economics of potatoes. It had burned potatoes, given them away for school lunches, let them rot, virtually given them away for making alcohol and flour-all at enormous cost to taxpayers and consumers. But as long as the Government supported the price of potatoes ($2.70 a hundredweight to Maine growers) farmers kept on raising more high-priced potatoes than consumers could afford...
...Ministry of Labor rated Alfred as "unemployable." Four times he had applied for a permit to open a pastry shop in Bedhampton, to which he had moved. Four times he had been refused. Opening of new pastry shops was strictly forbidden because of the shortage of fats, flour and sugar...