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Show FEWER BANANAS SENT TO U. S. PAST YEAR What with the war and put issues at Washington at fever hat it is nevertheless interesting ti learn, via the United Fruit Company, Com-pany, that the British and Europeans Euro-peans are not getting our bananas An official of the company veals that there were no shij- " ments of bananas to the Britii Isles or Europe in the last ya Shipments into the United Stats dropped to 535,633 short tons, u compared with more than a & lion tons in 1941. We trust that somebody, Kit authority, will call these facts ti the attention of certain Uiitii States Senators who might Otis-wise Otis-wise believe that the nation W entered into an international f erence on bananas and come oil second best. |