INDEX 



AAA: cotton restrictions, 57; crop 

 acreage and, 52; importance in 

 1943, 66; liquidates non-co-opera- 

 tor, 203; longevity, 229; new 

 agency necessary, 224 ; old and new 

 policies, 67; raises prices by scar- 

 city, 186; reduces production to 

 raise prices, 225; restrictions 

 widely accepted, 175; restricts 

 acreage, 57; subsidies, Supreme 

 Court, and, 203 



Administrators: advice to, 229; ap- 

 peasement and, 231; blamed for 

 shortcomings, 230; centralization 

 of power, 233; checks and bal- 

 ances, 232; conflict among czars, 

 226; conflicting authority, 228; 

 controls by-passed, 218; difficult to 

 average wants, 223 ; equality a bat- 

 tlecry, 193; errors, high, 21; free 

 price, mistakes, and, 239; imper- 

 fect, and conflicting interests, 236; 

 importance of questionnaires, 223; 

 indirect costs due to errors, 200; 

 job too big, 228; method of opera- 

 tion, 227; need squealometer, 237; 

 not principle, blamed, 229; policy 

 of action, 226 ; political expediency 

 and, 96; price efficient, 238; re- 

 versed farm labor policy, 36; rul- 

 ings, hastily drafted and widely 

 ignored, 10; run by organizations, 

 227; tactics, overwhelmed by po- 

 litical strategy, 96; time to reach 

 decision, 239; untrained, 222 



Age, reduces efficiency of farmers, 31 

 Agricultural ladder, 40 

 Agricultural policy, see Policy 

 Alcohol, from wheat, 109 

 Animals, see Livestock 

 Appetite, and nutrition confused, 119 

 Argentina: burns grain, 4; food 



abundant, 4 



Australia, effect of war on food, 5 

 Austro-Prussian War, effect on world 



prices, 158 



Barley, consumption of, 71 



Baruch, Bernard, rubber, 227 



Beans : effect ceilings, 63 ; production 

 shifted by price, 164 



Beef, consumption declines, 105 



Big freeze (1942), 144 



Bimetallism: black markets thrive 

 on, 206; content gold and silver 

 dollars, 204; two-money system, 

 188 



Birkhead, J. W., 46 



Birth-rate, effect of war, 7 



Black markets : alternatives, 218 ; at- 

 tract food to large cities, 189; bi- 

 metallism, 206; break monopolies, 

 209; cause shortage, 14; causes of, 

 209; conditions necessary to sup- 

 press, 216; corn, 88; currencies, 

 204; feed, 83; foreign exchange, 

 208; illustrations, 211; large and 

 small operators, 213; location, 210; 

 low ceiling prices cause, 20 ; means 

 of self-preservation, 212; partici- 



