U.S. FOOD SHORTAGE

Grey River Argus, 10 June 1943, Page 5

U.S. FOOD SHORTAGE

Mr Hoover’s Prediction (Rec. 10.45) NEW YORK, June 9. Ex-President Herbert Hoover, makes the prediction that the food supplies of the American cities will be smaller next winter and next spring than they have been in recent months. Mr. Hoover declared: “'rhe termination of the European War within a year would find America without adequate food supplies to meet the needs of from three to four hundred millions of starving people.” Mr. Hoover urged the adoption of a nine-point programme to clear up “this muddle of uncontrolled food prices, profiteering, black marketing, and stifled farm production.” This programme, he said, included the consolidation of all of the authorities handling food production and distribution under a single administration; and the planting of an additional forty to fifty million acres next year.