pants, 213; policing, 215; potatoes, 

 due to ceiling prices, 18, 19; set- 

 ting for, 11 ; simplicity of regula- 

 tions, 214; stopgaps to, 214; ticket 

 rationing tolerates, 192 



Boer War, effect on world prices, 158 



Brands, elimination of, 145 



Bread, see Wheat 



Brodell, A. P., 46 



Brown, Prentiss : administrative 

 changes, 229; division of author- 

 ity, 225; not a coddler, 230 



Bryan, W. J., silver, 172 



Butter: market and rationed prices, 

 Russia, 171; seasonal production 

 and price, 165 



Cabbage, black markets, 211 



Canada: effect of controls, 183; ef- 

 fect of war on food, 5 



Carry-overs, see Stocks 



Cattle: liquidation, Denmark, 95, 

 101; prices affect production, 

 164 



Ceiling prices: black markets and, 

 209 ; caused high-protein-feed 

 shortage, 79; compliance occasion- 

 ally bad, 217; disadvantageous to 

 large cities, 188 ; effect on consump- 

 tion, 10; encourage consumption, 

 16, 123 ; encourage use of fertilizer, 

 48; famine, India, 166; freeze sup- 

 plies, 86; gold and silver, black 

 markets, 206 ; inflexible, 188 ; mean 

 rationing, 187; methods of circum- 

 venting, 210; painless, 187; potato 

 shortage, 16, 19; power overrated, 

 218; prevent visible inflation, 16; 

 prices rise despite, 180; public un- 

 trained for, 228; subsidies, 199; 

 sugar beets, 164 



Chicago Board of Trade, 165 



Chickens: liquidation, England, 95; 

 war curtails, 5 



China : drought and prices, 162 ; live- 

 stock and famine, 102; number 

 people fed, 98 



Chinese-Japanese War, effect on 

 world prices, 158 



Churchill, Winston, 68 



Civil War, U. S. : effect on Northern 

 and Southern prices, 159; effect on 

 world prices, 158 



Commodity Credit Corporation, 108 



Consumer: causes shortage, 13; gets 

 left-overs, 4 



Consumption: a compromise, 111; a 

 habit, 111; adequate diet, 118, 120; 

 American and Chinese compared, 

 114; amount per capita, 114, 115; 

 beef, declines, 105; coffee vs. milk, 

 124 ; cottonseed oil, rises, 105 ; dif- 

 ficult to shift, 112; effect ceiling 

 prices, 123; grain, 131; guided by 

 price, then ticket, 120; low prices 

 encouraged, 10; machinery re- 

 duces, 103; middleman adjusts 

 production to, 138; milk, attitude 

 toward, 120; nutrition and appe- 

 tite, 119; poor vs. rich, 116, 117; 

 pork, stable, 105; potatoes, low 

 ceilings stimulated, 16, 19 ; pull-in- 

 belt policy, 123; range narrow, 

 113; religion and, 111; shifts, cause 

 of, 132; spinach, 121; stable, 113, 

 170; subsidized, popular, 122; sub- 

 sidized, solution of surplus, 9 ; sud- 

 den and gradual changes, 13; 

 three-M diet of South, 117; up- 

 grading of diet, 131 ; various coun- 

 tries, 111, 112, 118 



Controls, see Regimented economy 



Corn: AAA restrictions, 57; con- 

 sumption of, 71 ; frozen prices, 85 ; 

 hybrid, counteracts AAA restric- 

 tions, 58; hybrid, result research, 

 59; hybrid, spectacular adoption 

 of, 77; largest crop, 55; refiners of, 

 87; restrictions on sales, 88 



Corn grits, effect ceiling, 89 



Corn-soybean price ratio, shifts pro- 

 duction, 63 



Cost of distribution, see Middleman 



Cost of living: accuracy questioned, 

 184; rollback, 185 



Cotton, AAA restrictions, 57 



Cottonseed oil, consumption rises, 

 105 



