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Community of Interest. The federation includes almost equal numbers of Malays (2,500,000) and Chinese (2,000,000). The Malays are leisurely, pork-hating Moslems, the country's old settlers. The Chinese are industrious, pork-loving Confucianists, largely recent immigrants who now dominate the economy. After the war, the Malay nationalists insisted on limiting citizenship rights to some 10% of the Chinese. Such discrimination obviously undermined the country's chances of withstanding the Communist terror that broke out in June...
...fast," grins Mr. John, "that hobos hopping off the trains got hired as managers." John laid out each store exactly alike so that people could find things in any store once they learned the layout. "I could walk blindfolded into any store and lay my hands on the pork & beans," he says. By 1916, A & P's sales had soared from $31 million to $76 million. Impressed, father Hartford in 1915 turned the company over to George and John to run as a trust for themselves, their brother and two sisters.* Two years later, at 84, he died...
...armies and many stomachs. F-rations, based mainly on rice, were needed in the Kumchon area where the Philippine Republic's 10th Combat Team was carrying out its first combat patrols against bypassed North Koreans. A new M-ration, which, in accordance with Moslem dietary laws, contains no pork, was being distributed to the 5,190-man Turkish brigade soon to join the Filipinos at Kumchon. Regular supplies of tea had to be sent far up Korea's west coast where British and Australian soldiers of the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade were battling their way toward the Yalu...
...with little tables & chairs, the ordinarily bare parade ground of Port-au-Prince's broad Champs-de-Mars wore the air of a fête champêtre. While bands blared meringues through the soft tropical night, 15,000 happy Haitians downed free rice, beans, griots (fried pork), and heady island rum. Nearby cinemas and bars offered free movies and more free drinks. From time to time loudspeakers broadcast polite speeches by politicians suggesting that the picnickers might vote for Colonel Paul Magloire for President...
...contained a directive to the White House to do what Congress refused to do itself-cut non-defense items by $550 million. It provided a small sop to congressional consciences by carving $77 million off the $763 million pork items (rivers, harbors, flood control) and directing that none of these projects should be undertaken unless they were ready for completion, or contributed to the war effort...