Word: impoverished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exporting some $3 billion in food, 10% of its total food stocks, a third of its total wheat production. Critics of the Administration program cried out not for more generosity but for less. On one hand were those who thought the program would impoverish the U.S. On the other hand were those who believed that such continuing abnormal exports, creating shortages at home, would send prices into the final runaway inflation...