Word: parisius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High-domed Herbert W. Parisius, a man who believes the food situation is too serious to permit fooling with politics and pressure groups, last week threw up his five-week-old job as Food Boss Claude Wickard's Director of Food Production...
...Parse" Parisius had a good and tested idea: to draw a million small farmers into the nation's critical food production battle by providing them supervision and credit for needed equipment, feed and fertilizer. Twice Parisius submitted such plans to Claude Wickard. Twice the Food Boss agreed, only to change his mind in the knowledge that the big farmers' lobbyists insist production increases can come only through higher prices...
...guts, Parse Parisius finally exploded: "We in Agriculture have a job to do that calls for courage and wisdom and action. You have placed upon me great responsibility for that job. But neither I nor anyone else can do that job unless his authority to operate is clear...
...well do Roy Hendrickson and Parse Parisius know that the 1943 food problem will not be solved by exhortation and lament, but by painfully undoing the blunders which have reduced the "best-fed nation" to conditions in some places bordering on a food panic. Evidence of how badly someone had blundered...
...Director of Food Distribution Hendrickson, Director of Food Production Parisius...