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Proudery and arrogance dissolved rapidly on Berhala. The prisoners shared the floor with swarms of vicious rats. The diet consisted of rice sweepings, a tough, rubbery green vegetable and tea. For latrines there were two tin buckets. Filth and vitamin deficiency brought on dysentery, influenza, beriberi and several other diseases, mostly untreated. When the guards weren't slapping faces in anger, they were patting bottoms lewdly. Yet some of those same guards would unexpectedly share their food with the children, permit wives to see husbands in defiance of rules, even assist in smuggling provisions and medicines from friendly Asiatics...
...private person she would not come of age for three years. The question of her official debut could be put off no longer, and in 1943 the wartime Princess was officially introduced to her people in the vivid, yellow glare of the blast furnaces in a Welsh tin-plate mill. Miners, factory girls, housewives and dock hands turned out by the thousands to cheer her on a two-day tour. Denied the privilege of hailing her as Princess of Wales (she is still only Heiress Presumptive, on the supposition that a male Heir Apparent may be born to claim...
...story is told in terms of Bolivia's one export crop: tin. For weeks, Bolivia has been dickering with the U.S. Metals Reserve Co. for a 9?-a-pound price boost (to 76?) on the 20,000 tons it ships annually to the tin-hungry U.S. The U.S. finally offered 74?. Then the Argentines (who are granting Bolivia a $62,500,000 loan) stepped in. Argentina contracted for 8,000 tons a year at the Bolivian asking price and agreed to take 12,000 tons more if no other buyers showed...
...detail of the deal is that Argentina, which uses only 3,000 tons of tin a year, has no smelter to process the ore. Presumably Argentina will have it smelted in England. But what would she do with the surplus over her own needs? It might be smart business to sell it to the U.S.-at a fancy profit...
...lower slopes of the Green Mountains, the snow was almost gone. As the dazzling sun shone through the sugar bushes (maple groves), it glinted on some 3,000,000 tin buckets hanging on the grey trees. This week, as the weather turned warm, the groves tinkled with the "plunk plunkplunk plunkplink" of maple sap dropping into the buckets. "Dollars droppin'," Vermonters said, as they paused to listen. It was sugaring time...