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This incident did not take place in Russia. It happened at a tank factory in the British Midlands. The man and woman from Omsk were Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Ivan Maisky & wife. The workers were good beef-eating, royalty-loving British munitions laborers. Last week was Tanks-for-Russia Week, and the British were so eager to help the Russians that they acted like Russians themselves...
Trade repercussions may be vast, and South American complaints may soon pile up. Example: Argentina buys British machines, British tools, British steel, and pays for them in wheat and beef. Under the new agreement, much of this exchange must stop. Argentina will get U.S. steel, machines, tools-if she can get U.S. priorities. (Some priorities for Latin America have already been granted.) And the U.S. cannot be paid in wheat and beef. What then? Henry Wallace's Economic Defense Board is likely to sit many months before this problem is solved...
...York the following day cotton futures slumped 39 to 46 points. Soybeans, after an 8? gain the day before, eased off 5?; beef sagged 1? a pound...
...Gates, forced down near Courtrai, burned his bullet-riddled plane under his captors' noses; later escaped by jumping from a prison-train window in a German tunnel. Living on nothing but some crackers and a can of bully beef, he made his way 50 miles in four torturing days and nights to within exactly three paces of the Swiss border, where he was recaptured. But the Armistice came three days later...
...Beef powder. Broadcast BBC last week: "Mr. J. B. Cramsie, former chairman of Australia's Meat Council, declared that this meat powder might solve Britain's meat storage and transport problem . . . as it needs no refrigeration and takes only a fraction of the cargo space needed for untreated meat...