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...China and Manchuria a decade ago but now the No. 1 U.S. miracle crop. In 1918 farmers planted only 169,000 acres of soybeans. In 1941 they hit 10,000,000 acres; this year a whacking 14,241,000 acres are in soybeans-far more than all U.S. orange, grapefruit and lemon orchards combined...
...Hawaii's food normally comes from the mainland, ten days' voyage away by freighter. Two years ago, when 241,000 acres of the rich land of the islands were planted in sugar cane, only 695 acres were used for rice, 76 for asparagus, three acres for grapefruit. Since Pearl Harbor, the islands have stored a six months' supply of food in case of siege. But meat is scarce...
Last week several important sponsors took a more adult tone in their messages. On CBS's evening news roundup, United Fruit went so far as to advise cabbage and spinach along with grapefruit and bananas for the balanced wartime diet. Curt and clearly patriotic was Gruen, which snapped: "Buy a Gruen watch, but buy a defense bond first...
...business heads have arrived at the only logical solution to the paradox of how to retain the frills, such as ice cream in the chocolate milk and grapefruit with honey, and at the same time to eliminate their cost. It has decided to treat those frills as the luxuries they are, and no longer as indispensables. Happily the use of coupons in payment for extra orders cuts out unnecessary red tape. The complex of pink, white, and blue slips, which are now used only for statistical records, should definitely go. The real difficulty is not one of mechanics...
...average price. Furthermore, Leon Henderson's ceiling, when set, is made subject to the veto of Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard. Further than that, the bill exempts from any price control any commodities now or in the future under marketing agreements-potatoes, tomatoes, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, walnuts, peas, cauliflower, onions, hops, plums, peaches, pears, grapes, fresh and evaporated milk...