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...This figure represents about 5,370,000 Ibs. of dried clove garlic, almost all of which was used to spice the food of residents of Puerto Rico and the East Coast of the U.S., where the garlic market has lately been booming. No Italian garlic, noted President Truman thoughtfully, was sold in Chicago in 1951, nor was much of it used in the production of garlic salt...
...Puerto Rico's contests were settled by "agreement"-all three for Taft...
When the agreement was announced. Mendez shouted that he had not really "agreed," but had "consented." Politically, Puerto Rico seemed to have reached the age of consent...
...last of the 1,206 Republican Convention delegates were chosen this week. An Illinois state convention chose ten delegates-at-large, all for Taft. This brought the Illinois score to Taft 59, Eisenhower 1. Puerto Rico, which had been expected to go for Taft, exploded with a factional fight. Both groups agreed on one delegate, each elected two others. All are publicly uncommitted and uninstructed...
Senator Taft pulled further ahead of General Eisenhower last week in the race for delegates to Chicago. Taft is expected to get the 13 still to be selected (3 in Puerto Rico, 10 in Illinois). The situation at week...