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...Agriculture is also in decay. Many farmers have been pauperized and have abandoned their farms. . . . Capitalist trusts destroy grain and burn corn in engines in order to raise the price of grain and flour...
Minister of Food Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey was also squirming unhappily over the bitter bread-rationing controversy. Proudly he had announced that the first three weeks of rationing achieved a 33% saving of flour. Cried the Tory press and the National Association of Master Bakers: misrepresentation. They pointed out that holidays always made August a low flour consumption month and that housewives had simply used up back stocks. While the people concluded that the truth lay midway between Strachey's optimistic figure and the bakers' gloomy 10% estimate, they remained unconvinced that bread rationing had ever been...
Cautioning Hand. Encouraged by the prospects at home and abroad, U.S. grain traders promptly began pressing for suspension of all price controls, millers for permission to make flour whiter, distillers to abolish allocations. But the Department of Agriculture raised a cautioning hand. The world crop, although considerably higher than last year's 5.2 billion bushels, would still fall below the prewar average of 5.9 billion. And not all the news was good...
Romans who knew enough English to pun called him "The Little Flour." UNRRA Director Fiorello LaGuardia snapped right back with a warning that, although he knew food supplies were low, the Italians could not expect more help from abroad...
...wages had risen only 10-to 15-fold. A civil servant with a wife and three children, and earning an average 9,000 lire a month, now has to pay 3,000 lire for two pairs of flimsy shoes, or one gallon of olive oil, or 30 Ibs. of flour. In answer to LaGuardia, De Gasperi said that strikes and riots had forced him to give the people more bread...