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...Free Trade. Resolutions affecting intercontinental economy recommended the prevention of sharp increases in the price of export products and the granting of preferential treatment for nations needing access to raw materials. Washington reports, which confused U.S. delegates, indicated at first that the preferential treatment might mean eventual hemisphere free trade-with inevitable opposition from U.S. interests traditionally linked with protective tariffs. An official U.S. reservation, included in the 66-page final text of Conference decisions, spiked this report by declaring that the terms of the resolution "are inconsistent with the . . . liberal principles of international trade maintained...
...experts all agree that Army food in the raw is usually good. But the cooks are often raw too. Even though they follow the master menus handed down by the Corps Area, Army cooks too often manage to turn even the best materials into uninviting dishes...
England has a comprehensive system of price ceilings, licensing and rationing, applicable (though not applied) to all products, from raw material to store counter. It came piecemeal, and its enforcement is shared by two Ministries (Supply & Food) and the Board of Trade...
...allowed to remain as national states and to keep their raw materials. Japan, however, should be deprived of the mandated islands and Mauchukiro...
...Biggest gainer in War II has been farm products, up 58% (a deliberately created boom), which necessarily carried up raw materials 39%, foods 37%, textiles 36%. But in the same period in War I, farm products went up 87%, foods 72%, textiles 65%, raw materials...