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...million to prune growers. Government pencil pushers last week figured out just how much retail food prices could rise when subsidies are dropped. Their figures: milk will go up 1.3? a quart; bread 1? a loaf; cheese 4.8? a lb.; pork 4.4? a lb.; prunes 4.2? a lb.; flour...
Trusts Busted. The greatest of the zaibatsu, of course, is the 300-year-old feudal house of Mitsui. The U.S. has found that Mitsui has a financial finger in some 173 companies making everything from paper to airplanes. Mitsui was hard hit by bombs, losing 50% of its flour-milling capacity, 30% of its light-metals capacity, 40% of its chemicals and the bulk of its trading fleet...
Some of the youngsters could remember England only hazily. Others were frankly dubious about life in the British Isles. Like explorers setting off for darkest Africa, some had provisioned themselves heavily with flapjack flour, maple syrup, gum, catsup and other gastronomic delights. Small boys clutched baseball mitts and comic books. Older girls wore open-toed shoes, shuddered at an awful possibility-England might be "too dead" after the giddy pace in U.S. high schools...
...State industry will be confined largely to heavy industries such as iron and steel, coal, copper, lead, zinc, electrical, chemical and cement . . . power and communications . . . and industries directly concerned with livelihood such as textiles, flour, leather. . . . Private and state enterprise of the same category will be given equal treatment ... no discrimination against private industry...
...chief function was to supply the fleet with "bomb, beans and bullets." In the anchorage floated the "crockery fleet" - concrete barges storing the million items needed by a thousand ships. Fast supply ships and slow tankers shuttled from the U.S. to Ulithi, bringing oil, meat, screws, tires and flour to these warehouse barges which in turn unloaded their supplies into carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers and up to 700 amphibious vessels...