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...Claude Wickard looked, sniffed, tasted, grinned. The Department of Agriculture scientists watched him anxiously. On the plate they had served him were pork and beef croquettes and stew. This was the proof of a pudding three months in the making - an attempt to remove 90% of the water in pork and beef, to cut its weight 70% and its volume 65% for easier shipping to U.S. fighters and allies, and still keep the meat pleasantly edible...
...last week Secretary Wickard showed his courage, said he wished wheat acreage for next year could be slashed to 21,000,000 acres v. the present 55,000,000-acre legal minimum. Such a cut would require a Congressional O.K., something most Washington dopesters class with a trip to the moon. In 1943, therefore, the U.S. Government is likely to pay for another bumper wheat crop it does not need and cannot store. Meanwhile, Leon Henderson's assurance that wheat rationing is not immediately likely remains the year's greatest understatement...
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...
...nutritive foods which raise a people's health to battle strength-fresh meat & vegetables, dairy produce, fruit, eggs, etc. Moreover, they must produce enough of these to feed not only the home front but also its armed forces and allies overseas. Says Food (paraphrasing Secretary of Agriculture Wickard) America's is the "soil which will win the war and write the future...