55,000 MORE MOUTHS EVERY DAY
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. Mr. Norris E. Dodd, director-general of the Food and Agricultural Organisation, said that the world now had only nine-tenths as much food for each person as before the war. Even pre-war levels of food production—not yet attained—would now be still less adequate because each day gave the world 55,000 more mouths to feed. Mr. Dodd was opening the organisation’s fourth annual conference. The world was depending too much on North Amerwa ior food, he said.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22827, 23 December 1948, Page 5
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