Author: Henry Perly RuskPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Postwar Problems Facing Agriculture and Business
Author: Henry Perly RuskPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Postwar Problems Facing Agriculture and Business... Speaking for Agriculture. Speaking for Business
Author: H. P.. RuskPostwar Problems of Agriculture...
Author: Council of State GovernmentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Some Problems of Postwar Agriculture
Author: James George PattonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Post-war Economic Policy and Planning
Author: United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and PlanningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Postwar Economic Problems
Author: Seymour Edwin HarrisPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill
ISBN:
Category : Economic policy
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Food Power
Author: Bryan L. McDonaldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190600705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
There is a widespread assumption that the American food system after World War II was transformed-toward an increasingly industrialized production of crops, more processed foods, and diets higher in fat, sugar, and calories-as part of a unified system. In this book, Bryan McDonald brings together the history of food, agriculture, and foreign policy to explore how food was deployed in the first decades of the Cold War to promote American national security and national interests, a concept referred to as food power. In the postwar years, Americans struggled to understand how an unprecedented abundance of food could be used to best advance U.S. goals and values. Was food a weapon, a commodity to be valued and exchanged through markets, or a substance to be provided to those in need? McDonald traces different visions of food power and shows how food formed an essential part of America's postwar modernization strategy and its vision of what it meant to be a stable, secure, and technologically advanced nation. Policymakers and experts helped build a new food system based around American agricultural surpluses that stabilized prices and food availability. This system averted a global-scale food crisis for almost three decades. The end of this food system in the early 1970s ushered in a much more precarious period in global food relations. By the late twentieth century, food politics had become a battleground in which the interests of security and foreign policy experts, farmers, businesses, and politicians contended with a growing social movement whose adherents worried about the role of food in contributing to conflict and inequality. Food Power argues that the ways postwar American policymakers and experts politically linked people and places around the world through food illuminates both America's role in the world during the mid-twentieth century and sheds light on contemporary food problems.
Post-War Economic Policy and Planning
Author: United States; Congress; Senate; Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and PlanningPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330413791
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Excerpt from Post-War Economic Policy and Planning, Vol. 5 The fourth report of the House Special Committee on Postwar Economic Policy and Planning, issued September 8, 1944, contained a brief discussion of the principal problems of agriculture in the postwar reconversion period. Shortly after the publication of that report the Subcommittee on Agriculture and Mining undertook a series of hearings to investigate further the problems discussed in the fourth report. As a first step the subcommittee felt it was important to inquire into the longer range goals toward which our agriculture should seek to reconvert. Without a clarification of our objectives in this field it seemed clear-that no constructive national policy could be developed other than one of temporizing with immediate problems and complaints. The subcommittee's inquiry was begun on August 23, 1944, with testimony from Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard and War Food Administrator Marvin Jones. After receiving statements from these two administrative officials, it was felt that a canvass should be made of the views of the leading nongovernmental students of agricultural problems. The bulk of these hearings therefore record the views of some of the people who have been associated with programs for agriculture and have made exhaustive studies of its problems. In inviting its witnesses to appear at the hearings, the subcommittee asked for suggestions upon four basic questions: 1. Basic long-run policies to lessen instability of income resulting from variations in production and in demand; 2. Basic policies to place agriculture on a satisfactory self-sustaining basis in long run; 3. Policies to promote higher levels of consumption and nutrition; and 4. Relationship between our foreign trade policy and domestic agriculture policies. On the basis of this testimony the subcommittee plans to reexamine the major goals to be sought in framing agricultural legislation to the end that specific laws may be coordinated and directed toward more definitely understood goals. One of the assignments of the House Special Committee on Postwar Economic Policy and Planning has been that of studying and reporting to the Congress upon the basic components of a coordinated postwar economic policy for the Nation. It is the plan of this Subcommittee on Agriculture and Mining to examine the problems of agriculture from the points of view both of the farmers themselves and also of the national well-being and the attainment of our goal of a stable and prosperous economy, one which preserves, protects, and promotes freedom, enterprise, and high attainment. The views expressed in this report of hearings contain valuable contributions to this end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Postwar Problems of Agriculture
Author: Council of State GovernmentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Postwar Issues in Relation to American Agriculture ... Jan. 11, 1944
Author: Howard R. TolleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 7
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