Huge American Crops Give New Hope For Hungry World
: ' NEW YORK, August 15. The United States is expeeted to have a earry-over this year of mere than 1000 million hushels of the major exportahle gTaiii ^ crops— wheat and corn-— which will assure ihe entire world oi an adequate cushion againsi: a basic food shortage in 1949, says the New York Times. "From the United States crops alone," it says, "the mdicated eari'y-over of these grains nearly equals the world requirements^ on a pj'e-war basis, adjusted for population and other ehanges. A\ ith huniper ero]>s, 'indicated for other grain-producing ai'eas, the prospect in the United States assures Kuropeans of an adeqiialG minimum diet, even -il adverse weather conditions check the recovery of European agrieulture in 1949. "This prospect is of great political significance, sinee it reassui'es Europeans against the return of the spectre of iamine that has hannted the Continent sinee the war."
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 August 1948, Page 5
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