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...statement was made: "States that should have given the most gave the least: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Alabama, the District of Columbia." The facts of the matter are that Alabama's collection during the June 15~July 10 drive totaled some 18,098,811 lb.-a per capita average of 6.39 lb. As in many other States, county salvage committee reports were slow in coming in, but the results were there. Your article, I believe, did an injustice to Alabama, however unintentional. In fairness, allow me to suggest that you publish the enclosed fair statement of the facts...
...Week after TIME'S story the Petroleum Industry War Council's report to the President gave Alabama a 10,560,000-lb. collection-a per capita average of 3.73 lb. Accepting Governor Dixon's much higher figure, which makes his State about average, TIME gladly credits Alabama with a job well done...
...decrease in the per capita bread consumption by the U.S. during the past two generations has been due partly to the growing emphasis on vitamins and protective foods, partly to the realization that both vitamins and minerals are lost when flour is refined to pure whiteness. As a result, only one-third of the food calories consumed in the U.S. now come from bread (only 19% in the families of professional men), compared with 40% in most of Europe, 53% in France. Modern bread, says Dr. Sherman, should bring the U.S. figure up to 40%. This means that two billion...
Professor Sherman deplores the five-fold increase in sugar consumption per capita in Great Britain and the U.S. during the past century, hopes that modern bread will replace sugar, for which it is the best substitute...
Despite complaints, actual and potential, WPB's new program must be formulated at once and applied as soon as possible thereafter. Britain has concentrated production of everything from bedding to umbrellas, and partly for that reason has raised her per-capita war production to a point above that of the United States. Tearing a leaf from the British book is one way of stealing the laurels from Hitler...