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...recorder aboard a transport plane going in with paratroops. He described the scene and tension admirably, but none of his words matched the fateful clicks as the paratroopers hooked up their automatic release belts. A BBC recording caught a bargeload of British Tommies singing For Me and My Gal on their way to Normandy...
...things to look for on the expedition will be the gal Colonel Cornelius will drag, and we do mean drag, along...
Major General Schwengel's plan, which had the industry's blessing, sounded dazzlingly simple, and fine for the U.S. stomach, which has lately been assaulted by more & more rotgut.* The plan: that U.S. distillers should buy 50,000,000 gallons of Cuban cane alcohol at 80? a gal. They would resell this to the Government at 50? a gal. in exchange for permission to withdraw 35,000,000 gal. of good U.S. grain alcohol at 90? a gal. and to turn it into good U.S. prewar-style potables. This was supposed 1) to add at least...
...consumer of alcohol today, not hair tonic. And there is not enough alcohol. Smart sugarmen in Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean have converted all sugar possible into liquor instead of into the good alcohol base, blackstrap molasses. Reason: they get about $1 (800%) more a gal. Last month Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley tried to force Cuban producers back into the molasses and industrial-alcohol business by limiting the amount of potable alcohol the U.S. would import in 1944 to 14,300,000 gal.-the already swollen 1943 level. At least in principle, FEA agreed to apply...
...Association of America, Inc. From their agents, olive oil importers learned that the entire Mediterranean area-Spain, Portugal, Tunisia-has a record olive oil crop this year. Spain alone could ship to the U.S. three million gallons of olive oil. (Total "normal" U.S. yearly imports: 9,000,000 gal.) To olive oil importers this Spanish offer looked like good business. And since three Spanish merchant ships a month are making scheduled sailings to U.S. ports, and Allied Nations ships returning from the Mediterranean recently have been allowed to bring back such nonessentials as a thousand bags of briarwood for pipe...