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Feast or FamineFood Conservation in WWI to feed the Allies.
The U.S. Food Administration
English Blockade of German Controlled Ports
• Food stuffs “contraband of war”• Limit of trade by United States with Central Powers
• North Sea declared “War Zone”
• German retaliation with introduction of submarine warfare• Focus on trade routes
• Concentrate on approaches to United Kingdom
• Will account for nearly 5,000 ships sunk
• These actions will counteract each other.
Shipment of agricultural products to
Europe becomes critically important
Herbert Hoover, Mining Engineer
Belgian War Relief
Armenia and the Ottoman Turks
America
Enters
the War
The Convoy System will defeat the U-Boat
Food supplies will flow in to Europe
Will eventually keep American and Allied
forces provisioned
Congress passed the Food and
Fuel Control Act (Lever Act)
Concern with management
and conservation of food and
fuel (oil) in the national
emergency of World War I
US Grain Corporation
US Sugar Equalization Board
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