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...easy-to-read economics that may jolt the complacent U.S. The authors, Cornell University's crisp economist, Frank A. Pearson, professor of prices and statistics, and his ex-graduate student New York State farmer Don Paarlberg, carefully avoided the best-seller technique of sensational prophecy, a la Louis Bromfield (TIME, Feb. 14). But, with genuine alarm and deep conviction, they point to a coming food crisis...
...gloom, almost in despair, Novelist Louis Bromfield wrote last summer from his 1,500-acre farm near Mansfield, Ohio, "Though ours is the richest agricultural nation, our people are not going to have enough food. If it were possible, I would rather not think about next February." Last week Louis Bromfield survived the first week in "famine February" by eating well. So did the U.S. And War Food Administrator Marvin Jones, pooh-poohing Bromfield's prophecies, cheerfully boasted of surplus potatoes, eggs and canned goods...
...Bromfield as the sensational prophet last summer was hewing at the right tree, while Jones, the optimist, had lost sight of the forest. To eat well, the U.S. was drawing heavily on its food reserves carried over from years of abundance and underconsumption. But the stockpile of grains, the basic food, is getting dangerously small. And at week's end Louis Bromfield, prophet of famine, stubbornly set his alarm clock ahead, this time for April...
...Gannett, who opened a National Food Conference which he said he had called at the request of Agriculture Department heads of 16 states. The program was perhaps the most concentrated collection of New Deal denouncers possible to imagine, including Adman Lou Maxon, late of OPA, bang-browed Author Louis Bromfield, Texas' W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel, South Carolina's Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith...
Last week, up spoke Louis Bromfield, novelist and Ohio farmer...