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...than 20 years ago. Shippers everywhere were cooperating in the drive for fuller cars. A cement shipper saved 600 cars in one month; 36 instead of 18 hogsheads of tobacco per car cut a tobacco shipper's requirements by 465 cars. By doubling the number of barrels of flour per car, a northwestern miller used 100 fewer cars. Less-than-carload-lot shipments under six tons have been entirely banned by ODT, cutting l.c.l. carloadings last month 251,950 below last years...
...Orient and Africa. Reason: the Oriental diet consists chiefly of rice and vegetables. This diet makes the liver susceptible to cancerous destruction by some unknown agent. In Occidental countries, the liver is resistant to the unidentified cancer factor because it is protected by diets of milk, dairy products, wheat flour. These facts, said Dr. Cramer, show that cancer of the liver, at least, can be prevented by proper food...
...estimated that 40,000 people died of hunger in Athens and Peiraeus between last Oct. 1 and Jan. 26. But last week starving Greece had a glimmer of good news. Germany and Italy would allow the Red Cross to supervise distribution of 14,000 tons of wheat and flour which had already been received from Haifa and other ports. Underfed Greek stevedores who are to unload the cargoes are so weak that they will be allowed twice as long as usual to empty the ships. Germany and Italy also agreed that 500 tons of Turkish food could be sent...
Russia, whose need is even greater. Restaurants have not served real butter for months, and portions of margarine are half the size of a postage stamp and nearly as thin. Bread is still plentiful, but last week a National Loaf was introduced, consisting of one-quarter white flour and three-quarters whole wheat. Nearly all milk is reserved for children, grownups being allowed only three pints weekly...
...children of Brazil's Petropolis, in celebration of President Getulio Vargas' 59th birthday: a cake, ten feet high, 26 feet in diameter, supporting a sugar-and-dough bust of the President. Among the ingredients: 1.200 dozen eggs, 25 bags of flour, 25 bags of sugar, 12 Ib. of butter, 52 quarts of milk, eleven quarts of currant syrup, five bottles of rum, 7 Ib. of sugar plums...