free prices, 199; not impersonal, 

 201 ; patch on patch, 188 ; postpone 

 inflation, 200; public not trained 

 for, 228; result of low ceiling 

 prices, 199; stopgaps, 199; Su- 

 preme Court warning, 202; to im- 

 prove diet, 122 



Sugar, market and rationed prices, 

 Russia, 171 



Sugar beets, reduced production, 64 



Supply: commodities and money af- 

 fect prices, 156; consumer's meas- 

 ure of, 12 ; effect declining farm la- 

 bor, 33; effect price, weather, and 

 labor, 34; registered by price, 236 



Supreme Court warning, subsidies, 

 202 



Surplus, see Production 



Tariff, changes, to counteract rising 

 and falling prices, 172 



Taxes: lag after incomes, 182; mu- 

 nicipal and state, war reduces pur- 

 chasing power, 168 



Time, upgrading world food habits, 

 131 



Tractors, more needed, 45 



Trucks: "death-rate" rising, 47; 

 transportation important, 47 



Underwood Tariff Act, 172 



Unemployment, and overproduction 

 myth, 152 



United States, number people fed, 

 98 



United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, 46, 47, 63, 72, 74, 93, 185, 

 224 



United States Department of Com- 

 merce, 31, 52, 224 



United States Department of Labor, 

 224 



Vial, E. E., vi 



Vitamins: public not prepared to 

 evaluate, 121 ; stored in body, 113 



Wages: hidden increases, 230; not 

 reduced in war, 144 



War : affects food and clothing least, 

 169 ; affects supply and demand for 

 commodities, 157; crops, 67; de- 

 creases production, 3; depletes 

 capital, 168; effect on world price 

 level, 158; financed by deprecia- 

 tion of capital, 168, 169; food a 

 weapon of, 4; impedes transporta- 

 tion of food, 4; increases waste, 3; 

 plays havoc with food, 3; reduces 

 number consumers, 6; reduces 

 standard living, 168; wastes food, 

 4 



War of 1812, effect on U. S. prices, 

 159 



Warren, J., vi 



Waste: amount small, 21; an insur- 

 ance, 140; causes food shortage, 

 14; consumers, small, 142; distrib- 

 utors, small, 140 ; exaggerated, 139 ; 

 farmers, small, 140; food too valu- 

 able to, 141 ; war increases, 143 



Wealth, redistribution, does not 

 raise standard living, 174 



Weather: causes most variability in 

 food, 61 ; cycles in, 60 ; determines 

 production, 69; effect on acreage, 

 58; effect on food, 8, 12, 60 



Webner, W. G., 47 



WFA: corn prices, 88; feed wheat, 

 108; hog program, 64, 92; new bu- 

 reau, 224; wants high prices, 225 



Wheat: AAA restrictions, 57; and 

 livestock, 12; bread, market and 

 rationed prices, Russia, 172 ; bread, 

 staff of life, 114; consumption of, 

 71; effect price level and size crop, 

 177, 178; efficiency in production, 

 43; expansion, 68; for feed, 108, 

 110; for rubber, 109; penalty, 49- 

 cents, 203; prices, effect local and 

 world forces, 162; production per 

 capita declines, 105; stocks, 99, 

 128; supply guided by cash and 

 future prices, 165; whole-wheat vs. 

 white bread, 112 



Wickard, C. R.: administrative 

 changes, 229; division of author- 



