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...came to the U.S. from Russia 40-odd years ago and began turning out his own cigars in the window of a little street shop in Brooklyn. His formula for a mild, cheap cigar caught on. It bloomed into tobacco plantations in Connecticut, factories in the U.S., Cuba, Puerto Rico-all turning out millions of Garcia Grandes...
Though this sugar was bought outright, the U.S. has not been able to take all of it. Shortage of shipping forced this country to reduce its normal consumption and to enforce rationing. Moreover, sugar has been taken in large quantities from Hawaii and from Puerto Rico, where some U.S. ships have to go anyway, and pampered domestic beet and cane producers turned in a record crop. Hence the U.S. carryover in Cuba now amounts to about 1,700,000 tons...
...Vogel of Erwin, Tenn., Issie Goldberg of New York and Ed Sipowsky of Waukegan, Ill. flew a Navy plane, fought together, and died together in a crash at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Last week in Santurce they were buried side-by-side in a service that exemplified America: a Protestant chaplain read the service for Lieut. Vogel, a Catholic priest for Machinist's Mate Sipowsky, a Jewish rabbi for Issie Goldberg of aviation ordnance...
...Bishop John F. O'Hara, onetime president of Notre Dame. And Bishop O'Hara is so busy that last week the Pope gave him an assistant. He is the Most Rev. William T. McCarty, 53, of Brooklyn, who has inaugurated 14 Redemptorist* foundations in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Brazil. Biggest new job of Pennsylvania-born Bishop-Designate McCarty will be to help eliminate a serious shortage of Catholic chaplains...
...topnotch scientist with a talent for organization. From 1918 to 1922 he lived in China, teaching biology at Huping College. When the Bureau sent him to Chungking last April he had for eleven years been director of Columbia University's famed School of Tropical Medicine in Puerto Rico...