Word: wickard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grade-A Dietitian. To reduce the number of ifs in food, Washington last week got a new initial-agency, Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard got a new job, and the nation got a dietitian...
WPBoss Donald Nelson set up a Food Requirements Committee, put the energetic, ambitious Wickard in charge, gave a nine-man board his blessing and fiat to assess civilian, military and foreign food needs and to control crop plantings to meet those requirements. Nelson cagily kept two checks & balances: as head of the vast production-supply agency, he will O.K. the committee's moves; food-rationing powers remain in the hands of OPA's Henderson...
...given plenty to do: to control production, allocate civilian and military food supplies, get information about U.S. yields, check stocks, control imports and exports of food and farm materials. Newshawks predicted the early establishment of a combined U.S.-British food board, with Wickard as the top U.S. representative...
...extension; he protested loudly when U.S. destroyers were traded to Britain, when U.S. troops took over Iceland; he scoffed at the idea of an attack on the U.S. or that such an attack could cut off the nation from strategic materials. Last week, when Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard told a Senate subcommittee that 80,000,000 bushels of wheat could be made available for manufacture of synthetic rubber, angry Senator Wheeler wanted to know why the delay. "You've been asleep at the switch," shouted wide-awake Mr. Wheeler...
...Government benefit payments in four years. Last month Oscar Johnston was appointed special representative of CCC as a cotton idea-man. He had planned to go to South America to close the Peruvian deal; but Peru sent two able representatives* to the U.S., who signed with Claude Wickard in short order. So Oscar stayed in Washington and meditated on cotton's war and post-war worlds...