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...foodstuffs are rationed, even where they are grown. Southern Italians used to despise northerners as "mangioni di polenta" (eaters of polenta, a staple made of corn meal flour). Now southerners eat polenta instead of bread. Good polenta is so thick it is cut with a string. Today's polenta is so thin it can be poured. Wine can still be had, but it is not plentiful...
Alcohol. The present demand for grain alcohol is a great problem for chemurgists. Production in 1943 will amount to 530 million gallons, more than five times the prewar figure. With imports of molasses cut off by the lack of tankers, corn is the major source. The entire production would require 200 million bushels of corn a year. At that rate the Commodity Credit Corp. cannot long continue to supply the corn, and farmers want to use their excess stock to feed the 13 million increase in the U.S. pig population. Again munitions compete with food...
Turning to the 1¼-billion-bushel wheat surplus as a source of alcohol is no remedy now. There are unsolved technical difficulties in the use of wheat: for instance, unlike corn, wheat does not now provide a valuable cattle feed as a by-product of its fermentation. WPB is studying the possibility of making alcohol from waste wood and even from waste sulfite liquor from paper mills. Farmers are begging to be relieved of the alcohol and rubber burdens,* praying for petroleum rubber to make its appearance, a complete reversal of their insistence a year ago on being included...
...Reason: The ceiling price for corn is $1.02 a bushel, but when converted to pork a bushel of corn brings $1.25 to $1.50. Postwar note: the price of corn must be below 35? a bushel if alcohol is to be made from it at the normal prewar price of 20? a gallon...
...rise in the cost of living mainly on "our failure to bring food costs under control." The Bankhead bill, he declared, would compound that failure. "Under it ... the price of sugar would rise 1½? a pound, the price of bread might go up ? a loaf. . . . The price of corn could rise almost 10% which . . . would certainly call forth a demand for higher prices for hogs and livestock, poultry, eggs, milk. . . . These price increases . . . might swell the cost of living more than...