US. Boxcar Shortage Costs World Tons Of, Food

Northern Advocate, 2 June 1947, Page 5

US. Boxcar Shortage Costs World Tons Of, Food

(Received 10.30 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, June 1

IF domestic transportation were available the United States could ship overseas 2,000,000 tons of food a year more than is being- shipped now, said the Under-Secretary of Agriculture (Mr Norris Dodd) in a broadcast.

The problem was one of finding boxcars to transport feed to theports, ’ he said. “There are no more boxcars on the railways to use,” he went on.

transport food, business would yell to high heaven. “India is begging for food. “She. has got dollars to pay for it, but we will not sell because we can-

If people were willing to put otl getting a new car a little longer, if they were, willing to wait a little longer for a new frigidaire or wireless set, or for shoes, there would not be the demand for boxcars to ship those goods all over the United States. ‘‘But i i we tookUthose cars to

not move it to them. “It is not lack of ships, but of domestic transportation that is the cause “Meanwhile we will be sitting - on and it is getting worse, plenty while the rest of the world starves unless the people choose to do something about it.”