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CHAPTER 12 



ADMINISTRATION OF FOOD 



IN the horse-and-buggy days the story of food could be told 

 under four simple headings: Production, Consumption, Dis- 

 tribution, and Prices. Widely varied governmental activities 

 under a regimented economy do not fit nicely into this out- 

 line. The setting of goals on a national basis, the fixing of 

 quotas, the allotting of priorities, rationing, ceiling prices, 

 rollbacks, and the like have recently become important parts 

 of the food problem. Administrative control has been thrust 

 into the foreground and into any complete discussion of the 

 food problem. It makes no difference whether the control 

 program was deliberately chosen by the people or thrust on 

 them by an administration inclined toward regulation. 



Military vs. Civilian Logistics 



"Logistics" is a military term dealing with the problem of 

 obtaining supplies and of transporting them across land and 

 sea to munition dumps, to divisions, to regiments, and finally 

 to the individual soldier on the firing line. This is a complex 

 problem and men in the armed forces spend their lives 

 studying it. Although military logistics is highly compli- 

 cated, it can be turned over to military men with a reason- 



