Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even when the ships sailed regularly to Puerto Rico, bringing in the rice, beans and salt cod (staples of the natives' diets) and taking away the sugar, rum, tobacco and coffee (cash crops that pay the natives' paltry wages), there was hunger and destitution on this lush, mountainous, crowded island-stepchild of the U.S. economy. Now that German subs lurk in the Caribbean and ships are needed elsewhere for war, famine might cease to be a threat, become a grim reality...
Ruddy-faced, greying, intense Ralph Pendleton, 47, had been practicing medicine in Salt Lake City and working on his wax treatment for 20 years when he was ordered to Mare Island last December. "I'm sort of a hoarder," he says. "I had laid in a supply of flit guns. When I started for Mare Island, I threw them in the back of the car figuring they might come in handy." They did-by chance he was assigned to a burn ward, told to do anything he thought would help the suffering sailors...
...good photography and acting far above the usual Hollywood level more than make up for the shortcomings. The performance will prove more interesting for those who haven't read the novels than for those who have but if you don't mind two trips to the salt mines in four hours' time, a subway ride to the Fine Arts will prove a gripping antidote for November hours...
...causes of the inflation are clear enough. Japan has captured China's chief sources of revenue (customs, salt taxes, seaboard factory profits). China has financed its war partly by greatly increased currency circulation. On top of this, the war has brought acute shortages in the basic fields of food, clothing and transportation, and also in most luxuries. Once prices began to rise, the Government let them rise for revenue, and presently they skyrocketed...
Even with other good arguments on their side, the chains were badly scared, feared that only a miracle could save them. One miracle came in mid-August when hundreds of small storekeepers powwowed in Salt Lake City to hear anti-chain speeches. But they got a surprise when hard-hitting Joseph Frank Grimes, founder-president of the powerful Independent Grocers' Alliance (5-10,000 stores), told them: "You are not the victims of the chain stores and the supermarkets. You are the victims of your own fears...