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Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. is now spending some $50,000,000 a year buying surpluses and giving them to the poor, which pleases the poor and the farmers but worries the food distributing industry. Last fall Secretary of Agriculture Wallace proposed a bolder "two-price plan" under which surplus goods would be sold at one price to most buyers, at a lower price to the needy. Business reacted so unfavorably that the plan was hastily abandoned. Last week came news of something new under the agricultural sun: a new plan to make farmers, Business and the poor equally happy...
Pointing out that the effect of the walk-out will be the complete breakdown of the dining hall systems in the Houses, at the Union and graduate school eating places, Stefani announced that A.F. of L. teamsters had pledged their support and will refuse to deliver food to the College. At the same time the strike will have the active backing of the Cambridge Central Labor Union, an organization of 30,000 workers in the city...
...Rations for all colonels not to exceed one pony of beer, one quart of whiskey, 15 Ib. of food...
...provocative gesture even if excused by Japan's alleged fortification of islands in the absorbed mandate groups (Caroline and Marshall)-and particularly when viewed in connection with the British desire to control Japan's approach to the Netherlands Indies and British Malaya (oil, coal, rubber, food). More provocative, Guam is only 1,356 miles from Yokohama...
Oddest fact about 70-year-old retired Major General Sir Reginald Ford, appointed Chief Divisional Food Officer for London and the Home Counties last August, is that he makes his home in Brussels, Belgium, 250 air miles away. His is mainly a wartime job and he is needed in London only for occasional consultation. Explained Sir Reginald recently: "Heavens, man, I can get to London quicker than I could if I lived in Scotland. ... I catch the 10 a.m. plane from Brussels and am in my office...