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Before we left Chengchow the officials gave us a banquet. We had two soups. We had spiced lotus, peppered chicken, beef and water chestnut. We had spring rolls, hot wheat buns, rice, bean-curd, chicken and fish. We had three cakes with sugar frosting...
...Argentina long trains of grey stock cars are chuffing into the terminals, loaded with beef and mutton from the brown seared grasslands of the pampas, stocking up meat faster than the British ships along the wharves can take it away. Eight million tons of wheat and 3,000,000 tons of linseed cram the new elevators of Buenos Aires, Puerto Nuevo, Rosario. The warehouses are filled with hides and wool. There they say what they want after the war: something better for the plain people of the world. Better education, more books, social justice, freedom to come and go, more...
...peasant children know what they would do if they had the money: "Mai niu jou!-buy beef!" In a land where 320,000,000 have never heard a radio, read a newspaper, or seen a movie, the plans of the plain people remain what they were: to own land or to own a business. The Chinese officials are working on a master plan of reconstruction in which individual careers will interlock with a nourishing, trading, building, postwar career for the nation. They are talking of the roads that must be built, of the 100,000 miles of railroads New China...
Since the late great Lillian Nordica's gaslit heyday (1890-1910) U.S. woman's weight has dwindled. One result : a scarcity of great U.S. Wagnerian sopranos. Today few U.S. women singers have the beef and brawn that helped Nordica and her famous U.S. contemporaries (Olive Fremstad,* Emma Eames, etc.) to shout down batteries of Wagnerian trumpets and trombones...
...short of meat on Britain's account. Meat exports by Lend-Lease last year amounted to only 5% of the total supply. And Lend-Lease in reverse, i.e., food supplied by Australia and New Zealand to our armed forces abroad, exceeded our Lend-Lease shipments of beef, lamb and mutton by about eight million...