Word: wickard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urge American consumers to eat more cheese," states Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, "It is a rich source of food elements that are vital to good health." To encourage consumers to eat more cheese the Department of Agriculture has designated cheese as a Victory Food Special for the two-week period, August...
...full-dress patriotic campaign to keep farmers from'planting even the legal acreage of wheat was launched last week by Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. He was too tactful to say that war has turned the 55,000,000-acre minimum allotment fixed by law into a white elephant (TIME, June 22), but what he did say was nonetheless plain English...
...more than in 1917. Thanks to better breeding and feeding, milk output per cow climbed from 3,7431b. to 4,742 lb. annually. (Really good cows average over 8,000 lb.) The U.S. now gets more cheese than it can use or ship to its allies; Agriculture Secretary Wickard recently told newsmen to put two pieces of cheese on every hunk...
...Wickard, as head of the Food Requirements Committee, is far from satisfied; because of zooming Army and Lend-Lease demands, he wants milk-processing capacity upped 31% more; eggs, 45%; vegetables...
...Wickard's plea and promise this week seemed on the way to fulfillment. No prophet, practical, dirt-farming Claude Wickard might have made a prophecy, too, about the post-war possibilities contained in row on row of bottles in Department of Agriculture laboratories-test tubes of white, yellow, green, grey, brown powders that, doused with water, again turn into Irish and sweet potatoes, spinach, cabbage, carrots. Thus it may be possible for U.S. housewives to store a 2-3 months' food supply in a kitchen-drawer...