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| Public Ledger 24 Nov 1919 |
Continued
disruption of consumption patterns of commodities such as sugar following WWI. “Voluntary
rationing”, “Meatless Mondays”, “Wheatless Wednesdays”, brain child of Director
Herbert Hoover of U.S. Food Administration in efforts to reduce domestic use of
food by 15%, commodity controls through June 1919, and then the same agency
turned into the American Relief Administration to feed a starving Europe
following the war.
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