ALL IN THE DAY'S NEWS
All In The Day's News Two food stories were sent over the wires of the great press associations on the same day last week. They had nothing to do with each other—seemingly—and thus they appeared on...
...If food will win the war, the American farmer is setting up a sure thing for Britain...
...Stream of Food Goes to Britain Chicago, 111.—(U.P...
...There was so pitifully little to eat that George Walker Gordon, 19, wouldn't sit at the table with his parents and seven brothers and sisters...
...The family of 10 lived in a one room cabin in the Ozarks, remnant of a house partly destroyed by fire, hoeing strawberries, picking fruit and doing odd jobs...
...29 and Oct...
...They had nothing to do with each other—seemingly—and thus they appeared on different pages of the same newspapers...
...George was beyond saving, a victim, Dr...
...Smith was called three days later...
...Recently the Red Cross paid union initiation fees for George and his father, J. W. Gordon, 52, so they could try for jobs at Camp Crowder...
...The Progressive clipped the two stories from the Milwaukee Journal and herewith publishes them side by side with their Journal headlines...
...Department of agriculture figures Wednesday showed total exports of 1,650,000v000 pounds of agricultural commodities, representing an investment of nearly $200,000,000, between Apr...
...Smith said, of pellagra...
...They tell their own story...
...He collapsed on his way home two weeks ago, carrying home what groceries he had been able to buy with his meager pay...
...Elburn A. Smith, Barry county physician, said he had starved himself to death that the others might eat...
...George wasn't able to stand heavy work...
...Food for Family Too Scarce,, Youth Starves to Death Monett, Mo.— (A.P...
...The American farmer has coaxed his hens to record high production of eggs...
...1. A variety of foods made up the shipments...
...Since passage of the Lend-Lease Act, exports of American food for Britain have increased steadily...
...Between Mar...
...15, the federal government bought the equivalent of nearly 200,000,000 dozen eggs, more than a normal month's production and enough to give every British family about 16 dozen...
...15 and Nov...
...George died Tuesday...
...Cheese, milk, eggs, beef, pork, fish, vegetables, fruits, grains and even such nonfood-stuffs as cotton and tobacco were listed...
Vol. 5 • December 1941 • No. 49
