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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something Added. In accordance with U.S. policy of auctioning off instead of carting away unwanted supplies, the Air Force last summer sold 40 tons of surplus airplane lubricating oil to a Casablanca dealer. The dealer then sold the oil to 25 cooking-oil merchants of Meknes, Fez and Casablanca, who posed as garage owners. The merchants mixed the bargain-price lubricating oil with olive oil in a 1-to-4 ratio that enabled them to boost by 75% their profit on the cheap cooking oil that the poorest Moroccan families use. Ready to cheat, if not perhaps intending what happened...
...powers are unlimited by any parliamentary control, put out a royal edict decreeing death for "crimes against the health of the nation," and making the edict retroactive to cover the poison-oil case. "The merchants should be made to fry in their own oil," growled a cop in Meknes last week, as he watched the cripples hobble through slum streets...
Singers & Cynics. When at last Adenauer returned to Victoria Station to entrain for Gatwick Airport, a small crowd (among them some Germans) astounded the Chancellor and everyone else by breaking raggedly into the strains of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Cynics muttered that the singers must be Foreign Office men in disguise, but if the visit had not endeared Adenauer and the British to each other, it had at least reduced their mutual distrust. "It is from France and not West Germany," sighed the Guardian, "that Britain is now most seriously divided...
...Communists swarmed down through southwest China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, wearing a long Chinese gown, a grey felt hat and carrying a cane, gravely took leave of the officers who were remaining behind, and took off in his C-54 for a seven-hour flight to his last place of refuge, Formosa. He found little but desolation. U.S. air raids had shattered the efficient Japanese-built factories, and food production was sagging. Morale was at its lowest ebb, for few Formosans had faith in the Nationalist government that had ruled for four years since the war, and it seemed only...
...standard of living, Formosans are second only to Japan in the Far East. Model land reforms have helped raise agricultural production to 50% above prewar levels; the rice crop measured 1,894,000 metric tons last year, 680,500 tons over the 1949 harvest; canned-pineapple production has sextupled in nine years, and sugar output is up some 30%. With tripled electric-power capacity, hundreds of new factories turn out textiles, bicycles, gasoline, cement, electric motors and other modern goods...