Caught Short

At last Claude Wickard was scared. To the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee last week the long-sanguine food czar glumly admitted:

"The American people have been caught short on food. The food situation is going to become very critical so far as production is concerned, first because of the inability to get the labor we ought to have, and second because of inability to get the farm machinery we ought to have."

The amiable Agriculture Secretary spoke truly—but too late. Everywhere the people could see that a year's indecision and vacillation had finally caught...

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