EMERGENCY FOOD DUMPS
♦ (BRITISH OmCIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, February 5. Emergency food dumps are being organised near vulnerable towns in Britain, and a special soup, prepared by the Ministry of Food to a scientific
formula, will be the chief item stored. Six of the country’s largest canning plants operating on mass production lines have been mobilised by the Ministry, and smaller firms are being brought into the scheme. A preliminary order has been, placed for 250,000 cans, each containing eight portions of soup. The potential production of British canning plants is 100,000 tins a week.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23248, 7 February 1941, Page 6
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