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The Problem of Changing Food Habits Report of the Committee on Food Habits 1941-1943 (1943) / Chapter Skim
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Impact of the War on Local Food Habits, March 27, 1943
Pages 168-169

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... The difference in arrival time in New York and Detroit of an Office of Price Administration telegram freezing prices resulted in a real shortage of snap beans in Detroit, since they could be sold for higher prices in New York, where the market was still open when the wire arrived and the prices were raised before they were frozen. In some areas meat shortages are attributed to the fact that some groups in the lower economic levels have much more purchasing power than previously and can buy meats which they formerly save purchased only by others, as, for example, in a Virginia county.
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From page 169...
... There are many problems not being met by any agency, such as are created by the disappearance of retail stores or restaurants, or by the absence of ice supply for an entire community, or those created by lack of adequate eating facilities in industrial plants. These situations point to the vital need for a coherent program including all aspects of food supply and distribution.
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