General maximum price regulations, 

 and rising prices, 181 



General price level, see Prices 



German-Danish War, effect on world 

 prices, 158 



Germany: commandeers food, 6; de- 

 stroys England's food, 4; effect of 

 controls, 183 



Goals, and weather, 61 



Government employees, war reduces 

 standard living, 167 



Greece : effect of war on food, 5 ; low 

 standard living, 6; slaughter live- 

 stock, 5 



Hamilton, Alexander, 204 



Harper, F. A., vi 



Hedging, advantages, 86 



Henderson, Leon : administrative 

 changes, 229 ; division of authority, 

 225; NRA, 221 



Highly prized foods, see Protective 

 foods 



Hitler, A., 3 



Hoarding : government, causes short- 

 age, 14, 22 ; private, 22 



Hogs : effect price on marketing, 164 ; 

 liquidation, England and Den- 

 mark, 95, 101; pork, consumption 

 stable, 105; slaughter pigs (1933), 

 78; war curtails, 5; waste corn, in- 

 surance, 140 



Hold-the-line : and feed prices, 93; 

 rising prices, 181 



Hominy, effect ceiling, 89 



Hoover, H.: Farm Board, attempt 

 halt price decline, ineffective, 107, 

 172; one-man control, 233; unem- 

 ployment, 123 



Horses: decline in numbers, 45; af- 

 fect livestock production, 77 



House of Commons, 68 



Imports, see Exports 



Incentives, important to production, 

 62 



Income: all want more, 234; defined, 

 234; effect of size crop and price 

 level, 177, 178; rationed by price, 



230; size or crop and price, 

 174-6 



Index numbers, questioned, 184 



India : famine and ceiling prices, 166 ; 

 number people fed, 98 



Industry, wants more income and 

 low prices, 235 



Inflation: cause of, 182, 232; con- 

 comitant of war, 160 ; defined, 149 ; 

 every man for, 233, 236; farm and 

 retail prices, 149; feed grains and, 

 85, 93; food programs and, 10; 

 parity and, 179, 180; postponed by 

 subsidies, 200; rising farm prices 

 result, not cause, 148; visible, pre- 

 vented by ceilings, 16; vs. price 

 control, 233, 236; war and, 11; 

 wild, U. S. Civil and Revolution- 

 ary Wars, 159 



Inflationary gap: Russia eliminates, 

 171 ; vs. statistical gap, 184 



Irish famine, 158 



Italy : adds new demands, 15 ; hoard- 

 ing-food (1921), 23 



Japan, number people fed, 97 

 Johnson, Hugh, and NRA, 221 

 Jones, Marvin, administrative 



changes, 229 

 Joseph, 8, 107 



Kerr, Walter, Russia price policy, 

 171 



Labor: causes of movement to cities, 

 29; decline, and food production, 

 33 ; deferment solves problem, 37 ; 

 effect of social pressures, 38; effi- 

 ciency increased by machinery, 42 ; 

 efficiency index, 28; efficiency 

 lower on poor soil, 54; efficiency 

 reduced by age, 31; family fur- 

 nishes most, 28; farms produce 

 surplus, 29, 32 ; heavy burden falls 

 on women, 39; hiding in haylofts, 

 37; highly skilled, 27; import of 

 Jamaican, Bermudan, and Mexi- 

 can, 37; land army, 37, 40; large 

 reserve of, 39; number family 



