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no parity has been established. If price relationships between soy- 

 ^ beans and corn, for example, during the past five years were used, 

 parity prices of soybeans would be about $1.30. At that figure the 

 only way to get the increase of soybean acreage as called for in the 

 goals would be to forbid farmers to put the usual acreage in corn. 

 Certainly the actual need for the products should be taken into con- 

 sideration in establishing ceiling prices for farm products. 



Probable food supplies. Grocers indicated that there was a 

 sharp increase in purchases of canned pineapple, sugar, flour, soap, 

 spices and tea, Monday. Most of these purchases were attributed to 

 thriftiness rather than hoarding. It is not expected that spices and 

 tea will be as plentiful as before the war, but no acute shortage is 

 expected. Plenty of coffee will be available from Brazil, Columbia 

 and Central America, the usual sources of supply. The supply of cocoa 

 is the largest in the nation's history and adequate for 11 months. 

 There will be enough fats and oils available to produce all the soap 

 that is needed. Sugar imports may be greatly restricted from the 

 Philippines, but plenty of sugar will be available from Cuba, Hawaii, 

 Puerto Rico and Continental United States. We shall have plenty of 

 cereals and animal products, unless a severe drouth should limit crop 

 production some time in the near future. With a larger number of men 

 in the armed forces, food consumption is expected to expand, but not 

 to the point where rationing would come to be a general practice. 



