Word: grains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threw himself open for questions. Up popped the Buffalo Evening News's white-haired Jim Wright. "Mr. President," he said, "I have been trying to reason out this food conservation program at breakfast this morning without an egg. Are you going to have the chickens go without grain on the seventh day of the week...
Streams & Bales. The whole Administration plan was beginning to get as complicated as the riddle of the chicken and the egg. If saving eggs meant that the farmers would save grain by cutting back their flocks, who would eat the additional poultry they sent to market? If distillers and brewers cut down, what would happen to their unemployed workers? Unlucky Chuck Luckman himself pointed up another question. Turning up in Cambridge for a Chamber of Commerce dinner on meatless Tuesday, he sat down to a heaping plate of fried chicken (see cut). But what was the gain in simply swapping...
...Food Is Life." Luckman made a few specific gains. On his assurance that no grain shipped abroad would be used to produce alcohol, 36 out of the nation's 39 major distillers (with 90% of the nation's capacity) agreed to halt operations for 60 days and release all grain on hand or on order. Estimated savings: ten to 20 million bushels of grain. The nation's bakers announced that they would save up to 7% on their bread by refusing to take back stale leftovers from retailers. The National Grange, the American Farm Bureau Federation...
...Unbuttoned Coat. TIME'S Rome Bureau reported a parallel situation: "The Marshall Plan, a solid propaganda success, pinned the Italian Communists down to an excruciatingly painful issue. How could they ask the Italian people to trust them with the task of reconstruction when everybody knew that the only grain, coal and money that Italy could get had to come from...
...parity index would be changed to include the cost of hired farm labor and reflect the increased mechanization of farms. The new parity index, said Secretary Anderson, would discourage grain growing, encourage meat raising. Thus, Secretary Anderson hopes to cut down the vast commodity surpluses that have swamped...