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This Republic was intended by the Germans to be not much more than a commissary for herself and Austria. The Ukrainians undertook to supply 1,000,000 tons of grain, 46,000 tons of meat, 400,000,000 eggs, many horses, much coal, lard, manganese, fodder, sugar. The German Commander in the East, Field Marshal Hermann von Eichhorn, settled down to gather in the loot...
Reason: no lard for frying...
...likeliest boost to U. S. corn farmers will come indirectly, as demand for pork products increases. By increased feeding, it would be easy for U. S. hog raisers to add at least 10 lb. to each hog. Thus the huge corn surplus would be lightened, and the lard supply increased without increasing the number of hogs...
...staple the British do need is lard. Thanks to talk of heavy Japanese and Russian buying (possibly for transshipment to Germany), the U. S. lard market has been strong lately. Last week it was stronger: Chicago lard rose 9% in four days after the Surplus Marketing Administration bought 11,742,000 lb., presumably for Britain...
...Belgium the bread ration had been cut to eight ounces daily, meat to two ounces (including bone) a day. There was no butter, no lard, no coffee, little sugar. In France even Marshal Pétain had to dig out his out his ration card for the waiters, to have the coupons clipped for the grams he consumed-and an average meal meant less than four ounces of bread, three ounces of meat, half an ounce of fats-butter, lard or oil. Spain, ravaged long before the war, faced famine as the winter deepened. Typhus appeared in Warsaw. In unoccupied...