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...Placed shrewdly at a time in the Georgia farm calendar when it is too early to pick cotton or pull fodder, too late for plowing, the camp meeting gave Georgians a chance for chatting as well as churchgoing. Camp ers downed prodigious meals of fried chicken, country ham, barbecued beef, Brunswick stew, stuffed eggs, potato salad, corn on the cob, pie, watermelon, iced tea, lemonade, Coca-Cola. Even after such meals, old Dr. Bascom Anthony could stir his congregation...
...some of the meats and grains that formerly went to Europe, which the food-surfeited U. S. has so far refused to do. This week Argentine Delegate Dr. Leopoldo Melo was in Washington, where he hoped to wangle an agreement to get into the U. S. some Argentine frozen beef. With such an agreement in his pocket when he returns to Buenos Aires, he may find his country less unwilling to trail along with the U. S. in hemisphere policy...
...Then the food began to grow scanty and toward the end we were reduced to a piece of bully beef and four biscuits for our midday and evening meals. . . . When we had gone out about three days submarines were sighted and depth charges were dropped. The escorting destroyers circled about for an hour, but there was no further sign of the submarine...
...nervously tried to guess the winner in the Anglo-German struggle. With a foreign-trade policy based on reciprocity, Argentina has consistently attempted to buy from its best customer. In the past Argentina has found an excellent complement to its own economy in that of Great Britain, has sent beef, wheat and maize to the British Isles in return for manufactured goods...
...Europe has an abundance of only one thing-armaments-and since Hitler himself has set the example of barter, I suggest that we trade with him on his own terms-that we barter bushels for battleships, beef for bombers, grain for guns...