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...during the last six months increasing complaints have come from Regular officers that the seniority principle is being kicked around in most unmilitary fashion. Chief beef: in many instances a Regular finds himself outranked by a reservist who is far & away junior...
...wheat crop were abandoned several months ago for England can get its wheat by a shorter haul from Canada. Only a fraction of the 840,000 bales of wool which Britain arranged last October to send from Australia to the U.S. has arrived. Shipments of chilled and frozen Argentine beef to England (which needs it badly) dropped from 367,982 metric tons in 1939 to 280,242 last year, an estimated 131,000 tons at the outside this year. Unable to move 12,000,000 stems of Jamaican bananas bought at two shillings a bunch, Britain has presented them...
Since September Britons' weekly price-fixed beef, mutton and pork ration had fallen from two shillings twopence (43?) to one-and-ten (37?), then one-and-six (30?), then one-and-twopence (23?), and finally, last month to one shilling (20?) -enough to buy about a pound of stewing meat. More immediately serious is a shortage of certain minor essentials such as alloy metals, which meant that the British Army was going to have to be satisfied with brittler steel in its tanks...
Speaking before a capacity crowd in Adams House Junior Common Room last evening, Dr. Caelos Garcia Mata of the Argentine Embassy urged increased cooperation between the United States and Argentina in the form of a compromise on the importation of Argentina beef...
...Mata pointed out that the United States does not permit Argentine beef to compete with American sales, and that the consequent high price of beef deprives many, of the lower income groups of an important food. Importation of Argentine beef would lower the price level, he maintained, but in return the Argentine would buy American machinery and automobiles...