Is pepper necessary to the national defense? Manhattan pepper importers went to court last week to challenge the seizure by the War Food Administration of 6½ million pounds of their pepper.
Manhattan warehouses bulge with a three-year supply of pepper, whereas normally U.S. pepper stocks were never larger than a three-month supply. But the shrewd Manhattan pepper importers, foreseeing that a war with Japan would shut off imports, and taking advantage of low pepper prices, bought and bought, before Pearl Harbor. By December 1941 they had 60,000,000 Ib. in storage.
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