Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish organizations outside Poland are disturbed by reports that the survivors are still being harassed, that anti-Semitism is still rife. Some of the feeling is purely economic; that is, resentment at Jews returning from exile to claim houses, shops, land, livestock, tools. But most Jews in Poland have nothing left. It was reported, early this month, that an average of 200 Jews a day were slipping into the Anglo-U.S. zones in Austria. Many of them were young and relatively healthy, and some wanted to go to Palestine (see INTERNATIONAL) for a new start...
...UNRRA was stumped. The ship was ready. The animals were ready. But there were no livestock hustlers to herd the beasts overseas...
...July report indicated that the harvest of feed grains (corn, oats, grain sorghums) will be the smallest since 1941. The corn crop, feedbin for the livestock industry, was estimated at not quite 2.7 billion bushels-543 million bushels less than a year ago. For dairy farmers this may be made up, in part, by a near-record hay crop. Nevertheless, farmers look for a shortage of feed for their 715 million animals, fear next year's meat supply will be even less than...
...then submitted a plan (his eighth since 1941) to solve the muddle. It underwrote President Truman's proposal to coordinate all food agencies, but it went further. World War I Food Administrator Hoover recommended taking the price cop (OPA) off the beat, letting livestock growers, packers and retailers set up committees to police their own ceilings...
Since distribution difficulties within Europe were a big factor, the U.S. might lessen the demand for food by shipping locomotives and trucks. A few ships carrying North African phosphates across the Mediterranean would produce food which otherwise would have to be sent across the Atlantic. Feed for European livestock would greatly help Europe to provision its own table. But even with perfect planning (plus good weather), the U.S. probably would have to eat less to win the peace...