The Pittsburgh Press (May 4, 1944)
Politics charged in ration move
Washington (UP) –
Lifting of ration restrictions from all but the better cuts of beef today provoked the cry of “politics.”
“The administration is preparing for the fall elections by a program of appeasement,” was the way Rep. August H. Andersen (R-MN) put it. It was “purely a political move,” he added.
The Congressional farm bloc continued to criticize the lowered hog support price. Senator Clyde M. Reed (R-KS) said he and other farm state Senators were “on the warpath” until prices were restored. War Food Administration officials said, however, the feed situation would not warrant any such move, since it would divert corn from war industries to hog troughs.