FAT & OIL SUPPLIES
U.S. AND BRITAIN ZONE PURCHASES
(Rec. 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. A British-American purchases agreement for the partition of the world areas in which each country will exclusively buy fats, oils, and oil-seeds for the use of all the United Nations is announced by the Combined Food Board. The plan is already operating and has been accepted by the food authorities in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South Africa. The agreement provides that the United States shall make exclusive purchases of fats, oil-seeds, and oil in North ancl South America, the Carib-, bean islands, Portuguese Africa, Spanish Africa, and Liberia, also copra in Tahiti and all the Free French Pacific islands. The United Kingdom will purchase all its animal fats in • Argentina and Uruguay, and fats, oil-seeds, and oils in British Empire countries, Free French Africa, and the Belgian Congo.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 78, 29 September 1942, Page 5
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