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• Summary: “The world-wide travels of the ‘3 cent meal’ of
Multi-Purpose Food, September 1946 to June, 1960 [13
years and 9 months]: 62 million meals [distributed]
including 3,429 relief shipments to 127 countries through
210 cooperating agencies.”
This 29-page typewritten booklet contains a complete
listing of all the shipments of MPF over 14 years, from
September 1946 through June 1960. However no dates are
given for shipments to individual countries.
Contents: What is the Meals for Millions Foundation?
Multi-Purpose Food (MPF): What it is, what it does. Index
of countries. Distribution totals (Sept. 1946–June 1960).
Acknowledgment.
The index of countries lists the “Country,” the
“American Agencies or Denominations Cooperating and/or
Served,” the “Number of Lbs.” and the “Distributing and
Recipient Agencies.” Under each country is the number of
shipments and the number of pounds shipped.
In the Index, the countries are listed alphabetically by
region and within each region alphabetically by country, as
follows (however in the body of the booklet they are listed
alphabetically by country name). Countries receiving more
than 50,000 lbs. (25 tons) will be noted: Africa: Angola,
Belgian Congo (52,657 lb), Camerouns [Cameroon], Egypt,
Eritrea, French Equatorial Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia,
Libya, Mauritius Is., Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria,
Republique du Congo [Congo-Brazzaville], Rhodesia,
Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanganyika, Tunisia, Uganda.
Asia–Near East: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon
(56,910 lb), Oman, Persian Gulf, Turkey.
Asia–Far East: Afghanistan, Borneo, Burma,
Cambodia, Ceylon, China (358,957 lb; 1946-1951), Goa,
Hong Kong (238,760 lb), India (1,394,707 lb; 742
shipments. Note: Indian MPF became available in 1956, and
shipments from the USA were discontinued; 558,072 lb of
Indian MPF were made; 410 shipments), Indonesia, Japan
(535,250 lb), Korea (1,254,225 lb; 489 shipments), Laos,
Macao, Malaya, Nepal, Okinawa (20,616 lb), Pakistan
(83,292 lb), Philippines (122,103 lb), Taiwan (46,089),
Thailand, Vietnam.
Asia–Pacific Islands: American Samoa, Caroline
Islands, Fiji Islands, Guadalcanal, Hawaii, Marshall Islands,
New Hebrides.
Europe: Austria (82,159 lb), Belgium, Czechoslovakia,
England, Finland, France (124,996 lb), Germany (206,185
lb), Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg [Luxembourg],
Netherlands, Poland, Rumania, Spain, Switzerland, Trieste,
Yugoslavia.
Europe–North Atlantic Islands: Cape Verde Islands,
Madeira Island.
Latin and Central America: British Honduras, Canal
Zone, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama.
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South America: Bolivia, Brazil (198,581 lb), Chile,
Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.
Caribbean Area: Cuba, French West Indies, Haiti
(110,231 lb), Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, Virgin
Islands.
North America: Alaska and Aleutian Islands, Canada
(51,836 lb), United States (146,635 lb; American Indian
relief, Migrant relief, School lunch and institutional projects
{Clifton’s Golden Rule Cafeteria donated 12,500 lbs},
Miscellaneous).
Additional countries reached through overseas parcels
only: Argentina, Cyprus, Denmark, Malta, New Zealand,
Norway, Nyasaland, Pitcairn Island, Saudi Arabia, Scotland,
Sudan, Sweden, Trinidad.
At the end of all the countries (p. 28) is a box titled
“Total Relief Distribution”: 3,249 shipments [or perhaps
3,429], 6,412,256 pounds [3,206 tons, or 229 tons a year
average for 14 years], 51,298,048 “meals” of MPF. On the
next page are the details of the “Distribution totals.”
There is also a special acknowledgment at the back to
the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Naval Air Reserves “for their
cooperation in transporting approximately 200,000 lbs. of
M.P.F. during 1959-1960. Operation Handclasp, a peopleto-people
project of the U.S. Navy, originating in San
Diego, has carried shipments to the Far East and to South
America. Planes of the U.S. Naval Air Reserves have
carried emergency supplies of MPF to disaster areas, such
as flood victims in Nagoya, Japan, and to earthquake
victims in Agadir, Morocco.”
Note: The countries receiving the most MPF by weight
are (in descending order of amount) are: India, Korea,
Japan, China, Germany, France, Philippines, and Haiti.
A photo shows the cover of the 29-page summary
document. This photo and photocopy of the document were
sent to Soyinfo Center by Chris Dodson of Freedom from
Hunger Foundation, Davis, California (Nov. 2010).
Address: Los Angeles, California.
149. Soybean Council of America Inc. Israel Office. 1960.
The story of Eliahu Navot: The soybean pioneer of Israel.
Jerusalem, Israel: SCA. 36 p. Undated. Portrait. Many
photos. 25 cm.
• Summary: Contents: Introduction. The life of E. Navot:
“Eliahu Lipovitsky, as he was called before he adopted the
Hebrew name Navot, was born in 1894 at Uman in the
Ukraine. He immigrated in 1912 and, like all other
youngsters who came to Palestine–then part of the Ottoman
Empire–he became a hired labourer and guard.” At that time
the kibbutz (the communal settlement typical of Israel) was
beginning to take shape, and various organizations, such as
the World Zionist Federation, were founding agricultural
farms.
Shortly after World War II he obtained his first soybean
seeds from Mr. Mason (then Director of the Dept. of