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...quite 5%. The New York Sun rang up the net incomes of 215 companies, found they were up a bare 2%. With U.S. production up a solid 17% during the year, this was little enough to crow about - with renegotiation still to come. But renegotiation, trimming off the lard, may not be such a hazard now: during the year, many a corporation sensibly slashed its prices to Uncle Sam. And as an additional bulwark, many companies built up special renegotiation reserves to take care of refunds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: The Peak? | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...Catholic Quebec. To his Ste. Claire hearers, many of whom seldom if ever see a Jew, Duplessis hinted a horrendous plot by the International Zionist Brotherhood to establish 100,000 Jewish refugees from Central Europe on Quebec's rolling fields. Opposition Leader Duplessis dragged in Premier Adélard Godbout's ruling Liberal Party, said that the Zionists had decided "to aid financially all Liberal candidates who would agree openly or secretly to support the plan in the House of Commons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Union Nazi-onale? | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

When Lend-Lease lard reached Moscow, the housewives thought it too precious for cooking, used it as a bread spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bread,Toil and Victory | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Sausages and Airplanes. Without official reminders, Russian pilots know when it is U.S. planes they are flying, soldiers when it is U.S. shoes they wear, housewives when they use U.S. flour, sugar, lard and canned meats. New York Times Correspondent Ralph Parker went to a Moscow "gastronom" where the grocer told him: "Of course, we have had the American goods here. Not a lot; I should say about 10% of the total over six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Thanks and Labels | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...Chicago was almost out of butter and lard. Also short were prepared flour, vegetable shortenings, macaroni, canned meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: To End Blundering? | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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