workers, 28; number hired men, 

 28; policy reversed, 36; Selective 

 Service, 37, 40; supply, effect war, 

 30; wants more income and low 

 prices, 235; ways to increase sup- 

 ply, 40 ; weather, and price related 

 to food production, 34; women, 

 greatest source in cities, 39; 

 women, high proportion, 31; 

 women, pressed into service, 3 



Land: distribution of, 52; good, in 

 use, 55; most food produced on 

 better, 53, 54; non-farm, produces 

 some food, 53 



Lend-Lease : additional food, sources 

 of, 127; beginning of price rise, 

 181; bench mark for, 68; causes 

 shifts in diet, 132; causes shortage, 

 13, 15; commitments, 11; defense 

 of, 125; food, weapon in war, 124, 

 126; grain, 110; increases number 

 consumers, 127; payment, 125; 

 prevents price decline, 93; prices, 

 England vs. U. S., 201 ; raises price, 

 186 ; regimentation, 198, 199 ; shock 

 absorber, 106; stamp plan, 122; 

 subsidy for England, 202 



Lettuce, black markets, 211 



Lewis, John L., and inflation, 160 



Life, black markets, 217 



Lippmann, Walter, 232 



Liquidation of livestock: adds to 

 meat supply, 91 ; disorderly, 93 ; 

 England and Denmark, 95; equal- 

 ity of sacrifice, 95, 96; feeds more 

 people, 128; impending, 92; na- 

 tional interest, 95, 96; political ex- 

 pediency, 95, 96 ; price vs. adminis- 

 trative, 94, 96 



Livestock : ever normal granary and, 

 75; expansion cannot continue, 91; 

 expansion due to good crops, 79; 

 famine and, 102; feed consumed, 

 70; feeding wheat, 110; food stored 

 in, 100; gleaners, 73; investment 

 in, 70; liquidation, see Liquida- 

 tion; luxury, 11, 101; number re- 

 finers and condensers, 74; prod- 

 ucts, effects of drought, 75, 94; 



products per acre, per unit of feed, 

 76; shock absorbers, 98, 101; 

 slaughter inevitable in war, 5; 

 stocks food, 100 



Logistics: costs and wastage, 221; 

 military vs. civilian, 220 



Machinery: allocation, steel and 

 manpower, 45; breakage high, 44; 

 condition power equipment, 46; 

 importance increasing, 41, 44; re- 

 strictions, 44; revolutionizes food 

 production, 42; tractors needed, 

 45; trucks, 47 



Malnutrition, not result rising prices, 

 170 



Malthus, T. R., 106 



Marketing quotas, restrict produc- 

 tion, 66 



McConnell, J. A., vi 



McKinley, W., tariff and deflation, 

 172 



Meat: consumption, changes in, 13; 

 stocks, 99 



Meek, H. B., vi 



Mexican War, effect : on U. S. prices, 

 159 ; on world prices, 158 



Middleman: black market, 212; 

 costs due to consumer demands, 

 139; costs due to wages and serv- 

 ices, 138 ; costs increased by ticket 

 rationing, 191; costs not equal, 

 189 ; costs will rise, 143, 146 ; equal- 

 izes production and consumption, 

 137; hidden subsidies, 230; labor 

 efficiency declines, 144; little 

 known about, 135; milk, reducing 

 costs, 136; mistrust of, 136; new 

 slogan for, 143 ; not trained for reg- 

 imentation, 228; popularly be- 

 lieved inefficient, 134, 136; prices 

 guide, 165 ; rising costs due to spe- 

 cialization, 136; services rendered, 

 136 ; shortcomings exaggerated, 

 146; unpopular with consumer, 

 farmer, 135 



Milk: changing attitude toward, 

 120; reducing costs delivery, 136 



Money, war changes value of, 157 



