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...Olive oil. 5. Corn meal mush...
Argentina had 20,000,000 bu. of surplus wheat, 300,000,000 bu. of corn, 500,000,000 Ib. of beef. Brazil had over 400,000 bales of cotton, plus her chronically astronomical coffee surplus (around 1,700,000,000 lb.). Canada had 300,000,000 bu. of wheat, and 70,000,000 lb. of pork and bacon all dressed up with no place to go. Cuba was carrying about 1,000,000 tons of sugar. Uruguay was loaded with 120,000,000 lb. of beef...
...Deal braintrusters, worried businessmen, clearing through the State Department's Assistant-Secretary-at-large Adolf Augustus Berle. Economic Fireman Berle and conferees noted that in 1938 Latin America alone grossed about $1,200,000,000 from overseas sales of coffee, meat, sugar, wool, cotton, hides and skins, wheat, corn. Their idea: to form a kind of Hemispheric Surplus Commodities Corporation to buy up these surpluses, store them, sell them at a discount to the Red Cross, or do anything to keep them off the U. S. market. Such action would be simply an expensive move to bail out Latin...
...worth of goods in the strange ports that line the Cradle of Civilization. Excalibur's manifest was a cross section of this lost market: automobiles, steel, chemicals, machinery for Alexandria, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beirut; iron, lubricating oils and tinplate for Genoa and Naples; an assortment of flour, corn products, hides, apples, wool, tires, lead, wearing apparel, paper, missionaries. From Mediterranean docks, the U. S. got a $153,677,000 import trade. Of this, too, American Export freighters carried the lion's share: long-staple cotton from Alexandria, olive oil from Piraeus and Leghorn, china from Beirut, cheese...
...wares at a heavy discount from churches, orphanages, political clubs, usually peddles them retail from 1? to 7?. Included in his bales at the moment are wrappers from Bit-O-Honey and Mars Milky Way candy, Camay, Oxydol and Ivory Soap, box tops from Wheaties and Kellogg's Corn Flakes...