NO PROSPECT OF RATIONING IN AMERICA
Received Thursday,' 10.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, April LL. The Secretary of Agriculture (Mr Anderson) , after a conference wifc-. ! Presiflent Truman, said he saw UQ pro.s j pect of rationing read in America, qe cause it was impracticable. Mr. Anderson, without disclosing Mr. Truman 's views, said that rationing would he difficult to start at preselit, 1 since hy the time machinery was estab j lished, the spring wheat crop -would be 1 harvested and there would then he no | occasion for rationing. The Director of Stabilisation (Mr Bowles) recalled that Mr. Truman o^_ March 28, stated that he did not thin. it worthwhile to resume rationing in America, because the world food crisit. would have passed before controis coula be established. The Departrqent of Agriculture stated that it would take 90 days to inaugur ate bread rationing, while the e.ner gency was only for the next 75 days,
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 April 1946, Page 5
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