Word: grains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bread had become an under-the-counter scarcity, beer an over-the-bar rarity. The wheat ships were still not full enough nor fast enough to assuage the world's hunger pains. But the U.S. citizen gleaned an inkling at least of the largest mass movement of grain ever...
Bonus payments, ended in May, had lured 2,179,089 tons of wheat and 837,403 tons of corn from U.S. farms to U.S. elevators. The total-3,016,492 tons-represented more than half the U.S. grain commitments for the entire "emergency" period (Jan. 1-June 30). Said Agriculture Secretary Anderson...
...whole country can well be proud of the great job our farmers have done this month in moving grain to market.. . . The big task ahead now is to move this grain from local elevators to terminals and to ports within the time limits...
Some of the ships were idle because of a shortage of crews or cargoes, the cumulative effect of the grain shortage and the coal and railroad strikes...
...railway strike endangered the welfare of the whole nation; in a week it would have drained the life blood from our industrial system. The cost of every day of the strike was the lives of thousands of Europeans who are depending on grain which last week lay useless in American freight cars. The strike could not continue and under great pressure the President took drastic action which scared the Railway Brotherhoods back to work. As a strictly temporary stop-gap Mr. Truman's program is barely tolerable, and as a permanent policy it is unthinkable...