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...crossbred them. Finally he had a black soybean. He named it Santa Maria. Slightly smaller and softer than the common bean, it has none of the bitter aftertaste of the ordinary soybean. More important, it is chock full of proteins and contains all the known vitamins except C. One kilo is equal in protein to six dozen eggs or twelve pints of milk, items always scarce in the Latin American diet. It is also cheaper than the regular bean: 1.50 bolivars per kilo (45?) instead of 2.50 bolivars...
Less Fun. Inflation has spoiled the fun. Bargaining has become shrill, bitter, desperate. When the housewife asks why tomatoes have jumped 10% overnight, why beans which cost 50 centavos a kilo in 1940 now cost 1.65 pesos, the stall-keeper glibly blames la situation Rusa or la inundation de Florida. Unconvinced that the Russians or the Florida hurricane has any connection, the housewife calls for witnesses to behold how she is being robbed; she may shout the top-drawer insult hambreador (hunger-maker), wind up with a call for el paredón (wall used as a backstop for firing...
...workers. The country has exactly 100 people with annual incomes of as much as 1,000,000 Finnmarks-$7,352 at the official rate of exchange. For workers, the cost of living has risen 4½ times over 1935's - not considering stratospheric black market prices; a kilo of butter (28 marks in 1939) now brings 600 to 1,000 marks...
...fields of Grasse produce only a few, and not enough of those. Citronella, civet, vetivert, santalol, ambergris, patchouli and a long list of other exotic products had to be imported from abroad, and they were still not arriving in France in anything like prewar quantities. Prices were staggering; a kilo (2.2 pounds) of musk is now 100,000 francs compared with 9,000 prewar...
PRICES IN FRANCS Bread Milk Wine (1 kilo) (1 liter) (1 liter...