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...kroner to buy eggs and bacon from Farmer Denmark. Italy, the green grocer, was picking up all the guilders it could use by selling oranges to Holland, but couldn't buy steel from France because it didn't have enough French francs. Almost every nation's larder was empty of the food and manufactures which its next-door neighbor was anxious to sell at cut rates...
...Empty Larder. As Peron began his second term in office, Argentina was faced with a mounting economic crisis. As a result of drought and government mismanagement, prices are shooting up at the rate of 3% a month. Peron also seems to be heading for trouble with the church. Last month, when the church protested that a new Argentine movie called Barbara Atomica was immoral (TIME, June 2), the government not only refused to ban the film but sent police to make sure that it was shown. Last week, in a new move almost certain to provoke a showdown, some...
Britain's Food Minister Gwilym Lloyd George looked into the nation's larder, and finding it all but bare, decided that Britons would get no extra food rations for Christmas this year. He sent his boss Winston Churchill a detailed memo explaining why. Churchill bowed to the decision, initialed the memo and sent it back -with an added notation: "Scrooge...
...Sample larder: 40 Ibs. of steak, 80 cans of soup, 20 boxes of cereal, five dozen tomatoes, five dozen apples, five dozen oranges, six dozen eggs, four gallons of milk, 100 tea bags, coffee, lettuce, celery, tomato and orange juice, water, sugar, salt & pepper. -In March 1949, one of LeMay's B-50s, Lucky Lady II, flew 94 hours and 23,452 miles nonstop around the world from Carswell Air Force Base, Texas. It refueled from B-29 tankers over the Azores, Dhahran (Saudi Arabia), Manila and Hawaii. *An Ohio State classmate: Milton Caniff, creator of comic-strip Airmen...
...absolutely no reason for it. The U.S. was better supplied with food than ever before in history. Not only would the wheat and corn harvests be good; mountains of hitherto unwanted farm surpluses were stored away in warehouses and caves throughout the nation. In the Government's larder at the end of June were...