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Fascism, in its 21st year, faced its most dreaded hour. In Sicily the Allied armies were overrunning not a colony, not an island outpost, but the second largest of Italy's regioni. In a sense, they were probing the accumulated rot under the Fascist house...
...Jersey, canners announced that tons of tomatoes, beans and many another vegetable would rot in the fields or in storage and not be canned unless OPA fixed 1943 ceiling prices on the canned products, allowing the canners to figure their profit...
...Spinach was being dumped, left to rot, forecasting what will come when seasonal fresh vegetables, abetted by thousands of Victory gardens, glut the market. The outlook for commercial canners is gloomy. Reported the American Institute of Food Distribution in Manhattan: canneries, unable to get help with the low pay the wage freeze caught them with, have closed in Maryland, Texas, Indiana and New York. Canneries in Washington, Oregon and many another state are threatening to close...
...industry must be ready to perform fantastic tasks. Warned Automan Hoffman: "The very toughness of the assignment makes clear the necessity of starting to plan now. When the fighting is over, ex-soldiers on street corners selling apples . . . people starving in one part of the country while food surpluses rot in another would be death rattles for private business...
City dwellers supplement their rations as they can: cats have almost entirely disappeared; Bordeaux has lost most of its famous pigeons and severe penalties have been decreed for pigeon-snatching. Peasants have more to eat, often allow crops to rot in the fields rather than deliver them for shipment to Germany...