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More important than the credit was a second shipment of U.S. war materials that arrived in Uruguay, across the River Plata from surly Neighbor Argentina...
Last spring Yale frustration commenced when the government took over a large shipment of canned green beans. Yale, which was apparently attempting to hoard beans, was foiled by Uncle Sam. The beans have doubled in price since the government seized them...
...Hawaii than was thought possible; huge crops are also available in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Sugar men are having trouble storing extra sugar. Surpluses are stacked up out of doors, in vacant lots, under canvas, in danger of ruin. A large Gulf Coast refinery had to refuse a sugar shipment for lack of storage space. Sales for household canning have fallen below expectations -housewives loathe the red tape involved...
Northbound, the sailing vessels will nibble away at the 4,000,000 tons of sugar awaiting shipment in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the 330,000 tons of Colombian and Central American coffee normally imported each year by the U.S. At transfer terminals in the Lesser Antilles they may even pick up cargoes brought by convoy from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, cutting the convoy voyage by as much as half...
...hitched horses to them. Paraffin is so scarce that Donegal peasants now use rushlights, make candles from mutton fat. Fisherfolk in the western islands are catching shark for oil to light homemade lamps. This spring the wheat shortage threatened a bread famine by midsummer, but a 7,000-ton shipment from Canada brought some relief. Worse still, there's devilish little tea-and all for a war the Government will hardly admit exists. Only bright spot in the deepening gloom: you can always blame the British...