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...ours is the richest agricultural nation, our people are not going to have enough food. If it were possible, I would rather not think about next February." Last week Louis Bromfield survived the first week in "famine February" by eating well. So did the U.S. And War Food Administrator Marvin Jones, pooh-poohing Bromfield's prophecies, cheerfully boasted of surplus potatoes, eggs and canned goods...
...total imports-25 million tons-by sea. All the air imports could easily have been stowed into two Liberty ships. But the role air freight played in maintaining essential war production could not be thus measured in cold statistics. Last week a young, lean Navy lieutenant, Langdon P. Marvin Jr., chairman of WPB's Interdepartmental Air Cargo Priorities Committee, in a year-end summary of work done, told how air cargoes of vital raw materials arrived only a few hours before the last reserves were scraped from the bottom of U.S. stockpiles. Without planeloads of mica, quartz crystals, tantalate...
Things should be calmer in 1944. But Marvin still gets emergency calls-a sugar grower needs a shipment of live frogs from Argentina to eat insects menacing the sugar crop; a silk concern wants a shipment of silkworm eggs from Turkey. He turned down a request to ship perfume essence, worth $1,500 a Ib. But when the U.S. onion crop turned out poorly, 61,600 pounds of onion seeds were flown in from Argentina...
Treasury officials feverishly pursued their campaign of statements, speeches and planted newspaper articles designed to convince the people and Congress that the war is not almost over, that inflation danger is real. Food Boss Marvin Jones, too considerate to call in his publicity staff but too worried to wait, went to his empty office on Sunday, typed out an appeal for quick Congressional action on subsidies so that farmers can make their planting plans, personally distributed the carbon copies to press offices...
...Died. Marvin Hunter McIntyre, 65, secretary to the President since 1933; after long ill health; in Washington. Frail, pale, poker-playing, close-harmonizing McIntyre worked as a reporter before he joined the Navy Department as a public-relations man in 1918 and met Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt. McIntyre was business manager of F.D.R.'s 1932 campaign, was thereafter rewarded with his post as the White House's special lobbyist, buffer and public-relations man. For the next eleven years he racked his wraithlike body with an average of 270 daily phone conversations, numberless face...