Monopoly, broken by black markets, 



209 



Mukerjee, R., 98 

 Myers, W. I., vi 



Napoleonic Wars, effect on world 

 prices, 158 



Nitrogen, see Fertilizer 



Non-foods, consumption reduced by 

 rising food prices, 170 



NRA: black markets, 210; short 

 course in regimentation, 221 



Nutrition: adequate, 118; confused 

 with appetite, 119; deals with com- 

 plex variables, 119; emphasis on 

 livestock, 11; public not prepared 

 to evaluate, 121 



OES, 93 



OPA: black market and enforce- 

 ment, 217 ; butter-meats-fats- 

 cheese rationing, 196; ceilings 

 stimulate consumption, 20; cheap 

 bread, 225; concessions to rising 

 prices, 185 ; freezes corn prices, 85 ; 

 holds down price and income, 67; 

 impossible task, 232; low corn 

 prices prevent inflation, 91 ; pro- 

 tein feed prices, 80, 82; recognizes 

 livestock dilemma, 93 ; reorganiza- 

 tion difficult, 226; reporting viola- 

 tions to, 216; rightly new agency, 

 224; rollback squeeze, 144; stimu- 

 lated consumption, 16 



Overproduction, see Production 



OWI, 21 



Paint, shock absorber, 105 



Parity: denned, 178; inflation and 

 deflation, 179; payments, little use 

 in war, 66; popular interpretation, 

 180 ; rates of change with inflation 

 and deflation, 179 



Pepper, ceiling prices, black markets, 

 208 



Perishability, and rationing, 194 



Petroleum vs. wheat for rubber, 109 



Pitt, William, 201 



Planning, see Regimented economy 



Platt, F. L., vi 



Poland, slaughter livestock, 5 

 Policy : and political expediency, 96 ; 

 crops, changed late, 66; ever nor- 

 mal granary, 107; expansion, 65; 

 Farm Board, 107; farm labor, 36; 

 feed wheat, 129; food, reversed, 

 108 ; food strategy controversial, 9 ; 

 history, early thirties, 173; horse- 

 and-buggy days, 64; Joseph, ever 

 normal granary, 107; liquidate 

 livestock, conservation measure, 

 101; liquidate then expand ever 

 normal granary, 107, 108; prices, 

 recent, 173; prices, stemming 

 world-wide decline, 173; research 

 and controls, 59; restrictions, 65, 

 164; rubber from wheat, 109; 

 scrape the bins, 90; shifts bean 

 acreage, 164; two blades grass, 64 

 Political expediency, 25 

 Political strategy, overwhelms ad- 

 ministrative tactics, 96 

 Population : equals food supply, 106 ; 

 farm, decline, effect on food sup- 

 ply, 32; farms produce surplus, 29, 

 32; increase, and food exports, 

 104 ; outruns food supply, 103 

 Pork, consumption stable, 105 

 Potatoes: ceiling prices, black mar- 

 kets, 211 ; shortage due to low ceil- 

 ing prices, 16 



Poverty, attempts to abolish, 122 

 Power equipment, see Machinery 

 Prices: affect consumption and pro- 

 duction, 12; affect marketing and 

 production, 164; and droughts, 

 162; and farm income, 176, 178; 

 and parity, 178; by legislation, 

 177; cash and future, guide wheat, 

 165; ceilings, see Ceiling prices; 

 changes due to world prices, 161, 

 182 ; combinations of factors, com- 

 plex, 155; controls difficult, 182; 

 controls, every man for, 233, 236; 

 controls expensive, 183; controls 

 vs. inflation, 233, 236; controver- 

 sial, 147; democratic administra- 

 tor, 238; economy, many patterns, 



