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...heels of such longtime export leaders as wheat, flour and newsprint, were some healthy newcomers. Locomotives, cars and parts exported totaled $53.3 million v. $358,000 in 1939; synthetic rubber, $7.9 million v. $200,000 in 1939; electrical apparatus (including radios), $20.9 million v. $3.2 million; ships, $18.8 million...
Hard Tack. In Milan, Italy, people got worried about their bread's strange texture, learned that hard-up bakers had stretched flour rations with marble dust...
...carefree savages" idealized by civilization-haters. The cultures are primitive, but the lives of the individuals are anything but simple. Since they lack effective agriculture, they have to depend on nature's stingy gifts, laboriously gathering everything even faintly edible. They hack down palms, make sawdusty flour out of the pith. They build brush dams across streams to trap fish. They pick up tiny seeds, break hard nuts with stones. They eat skunks, grasshoppers, alligators, armadillos...
...those abroad it must seem that the United States is playing both ends against the middle. Reports of low flour barrels in Austria which has only enough wheat to last until February at the present rate of consumption, serve to emphasize the necessity for action. Since the State Department was good enough to propose giving away money it does not have, it should certainly be glad to reveal how it expects to perform this minor miracle. Revelation of such a feat would prove to hungry Europeans that Kris Kringle is more than a wraith...
...years, The Light of the World, a daytime soaper based on the Bible, did a decorous one-a-day, Monday through Friday, for General Mills. Last March, with flour short, General Mills turned off The Light. Result: all over the U.S. church groups, which had used the show in Bible study, squawked loud & long. This week, with flour again in stock, General Mills once more beamed The Light to devoted listeners...