Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...draft and juicy war jobs started taking farm people away. About 570,000 left farms in 1940. More than 1,000,000 left in 1941. By seeding time next spring, an estimated 1,300,000 more will have gone. Now farmers can no longer tend all their acres, milk all their cows. They must somehow reduce operations, sell herds or sit down and admit they are licked...
...Minnesota and 10,000 Kansas farms will be sold or simply abandoned to weeds. In fertile New York, 1,400 farms have already gone out of production. Before snow flies 35,000 cows will be sold off Northeastern farms, and that means 64,000,000 fewer quarts of milk...
When Price Boss Leon Henderson consulted with Economic Stabilizer Jimmy Byrnes, his argument for this scheme was that since the ceiling would be maintained, the move would not be inflationary. Actually, of course, if the Government pays bigger subsidies to corporations (be they copper companies or milk companies), and the corporations pay higher wages which are used to buy consumer goods, the net result is very definitely inflationary. The truth, which the Government has acknowledged but refused to face, is that copper is so badly needed that it is cheap at the price of a little inflation...
Whether Economan Byrnes will actually have to get laws changed to hold down the price of wheat and other farm products remains to be seen. Meanwhile, in the case of another basic commodity-milk-the Government has conceded higher prices to the farmer and chosen a more tortuous course. The course: pay milk distributors a direct subsidy so that retail prices can be kept down. In New York City alone the subsidy already amounts to about $15,000 a day-and it will have to be doubled this month if it is to keep pace with the latest jump...
Norwegian Gjestost. Before the Germans came to Norway there were big breakfasts of goat's-milk cheese (Gjestost), fish puddings of haddock, eggs and butter, fried cakes cooked with brandy. Last week 2,250,000 Norwegians (out of 3,000,000) suffered from malnutrition. Hitler's Gauleiter, Josef Terboven, had flatly announced that he did not care if thousands of Norwegians starved. The Germans confiscated cattle, whale meat, the herring catch, potatoes. Starvation, as tragic as that in Greece, confronted the descendants of Vikings...