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...trucks with enormous anti aircraft trailers, radio cars, searchlight trailers, troop-carrying busses. They went, carelessly, for hospital units. They went, in blissful ignorance, for lorries carrying the harmless stuff which could only be going to a British force in the midst of a desperate stand: tins of Australian beef, cases of toothpicks, cartons of boot polish...
...plugged a theme dear to cattle-State politicians: protect the U. S. livestock industry by keeping out South American meat. His amendment prohibits use of any part of the appropriation for food or clothing produced outside the U. S., thus applies to Australian wool as well as to Argentine beef. Says Congressman Scrugham: "I come from a district dependent almost entirely on beef and wool. I'm sent here to protect the interests of those growers. If I don't, they'll kick my -." To Good Neighborites, purchase of Argentine canned beef by the Army &; Navy makes...
...packers find a ready market for cheap cuts of beef in an insatiable national appetite for hamburgers and hot dogs...
Hence they have little incentive to put them up in cans; most of the tinned beef sold in the U. S. already is packed in South America. In 1939 the Navy got a bid of 9.?7 a Ib. (not counting tariff) against a low bid of 23.6/ for U. S. tinned beef. Yet when President Roosevelt proposed that the Navy accept the Argentine bid (at a saving of $6,672), sectionally-minded Congressmen like Scrugham tied his hands...
...even if Congress lets the military services buy tinned beef from Argentina, it will still have to decide how to be a Good Neighbor about Argentine raw meat...