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A farmer talks about inability to produce enough foods to feed soldiers and populace without rationing in the United States.
Rationing during World War 2 in the United States. A dramatization: A farmer works at a machine. The farmer gets up and climbs up a hilly terrain. He looks down. He gets into a horse cart. He plows a field. He works in the field. He drives a tractor. He bends his head on the steering wheel as he gets tired. Production of grains, vegetables and fruits. The farmer talks about the inability of U.S. farms to produce enough food to feed soldiers, Navy seamen, Allies and U.S. population without rationing. A ration book for equal share in food. Close up view of hands of person on ration book, showing cover with title 'War Ration Book Two" and views of pages of ration stamps.
A conscience-stricken housewife refuses to buy black market meat because of high price and lack of food for military in the U.S.
Rationing of food in the United States. People go to stores with ration cards. Tins of food on shelves. Food packets and vegetables in a store. People buy food using the ration cards. Clothes on a string. People walk along a road with their rations. Shops and stores along the road. A dramatization: A house wife comes in a store to buy black market meat. The conscience-stricken housewife refuses to buy black market meat when the consequences (high price and lack of food for military) are explained to her. The housewife goes away. Pictures of soldiers, Marines and pilots. (World War II period).
American citizens walking in towns and cities during World War 2, with ration song "It's up to you" in background.
Rationing of food in the United States during World War 2. Propaganda song jingle heard on film soundtrack with words "It's up to you, mister, what do you say? It's up to you, sister, starting today." Other lines include "You can fix that shoe and you can wear it. And you can cut down food, and you can share it. Mister, sister, it's up to you." American citizens walking in American towns. A woman passes a storefront. Poster in window says "Your blood may save your next of kin" (encouraging blood donations). Another sign recruits woman SPARS for military service. Women exiting a church. A woman working tilling a victory garden. Men and women pedestrians and workers crossing city streets during a work day. A large crowd gathers in an open square.
Butter is removed from a churn, cut into 1 lb blocks, wrapped and stored at Swift's Brookfield Creamery in Marion, Indiana.
Manufacture and storing of butter at Swift's Brookfield Creamery in Marion, Indiana. Men remove butter from a churn. The churn revolves. Machines are used to cut butter into 1 pound ( lb ) blocks. Girls wrap the butter. The girls stack the butter in piles. A butter storage room- storing of an 800 lb block.
Farming equipment plows a field and food is distributed to people in the United States.
Postwar ( World War II ) agriculture activities in the United States. A tractor driven on a field. A farmer drinks water. Views of a farm land. A huge smoke tail rises as a ship burns. American workers sitting. Farming equipment plows a field. Views of eroded land. Buildings and monuments. Officials seated in a building. Soldiers eat food. Food is distributed to people. Tractors and cattle on farms. Milk containers are loaded.
American farmers increase production of agricultural products needed during World War II
Film opens with series of animated maps of the United States, showing the States that are the typical sources of agricultural products, including wheat, corn, dairy products, beef cattle, cotton, flax, lumber, and fruits and vegetables. A woman in overalls places fresh cut corn from a truck on to a conveyor. Farmers pitch hay from trucks. Momentary glimpse of a warehouse on a waterway, with a railroad train running to it, and a large cargo ship docked beside it. A federal official briefs a group of farm state officials and farm families, about the need for increased agricultural production, during World War 2. Closeups of persons in the audience. Scene shifts to window of a modest wooden home with anchor symbol two blue stars displayed for family members in military service. Closeup of the two blue stars in the window. With many men gone in military service, women and youth fill the labor gaps. A women at the wheel of a piece of farm equipment. A boy picking fruit from a tree. View of a large vacant lot in a city being used for numerous "Victory Gardens." A girl digging with a spade in one of the gardens. Other gardeners conversing in the background. A woman storing mason jars of preserved fruits and vegetables on a shelf in her home. Farmers performing maintenance and repairs on farm machinery. Momentary view of farmers loading crates of foods onto an open truck. Women placing vegetables into cans at a factory. Cattle moving into a pen. Men loading bales of cotton onto a river boat. A large freighter being loaded at a port. A farmer treating the soil with something dispensed from a spreader behind his tractor. A farmer harvesting corn by machinery. Three dead pigs, on the ground, (victims of disease.) Cattle foraging close to one another in a pasture. Insects attacking crops as there is a shortage of insecticides during the war. Severe weather causing crop losses is seen. A farmer harvesting with a combine. A document is shown labeled PL 147 77th Congress (the Steagall Bill). (Narrator states it guaranteed prices of 90 percent of parity for war needed crops.) Brochures for alternate crops that farmers might consider because foreign supplies were cut off. A farmer removes an envelope from his mail box. (Narrator alludes to government supplied crop loans and dairy feed payments.) Corn being piled up. Pigs at feeding troughs. Men loading crates of food onto a truck. fresh cut logs rolling into a river. Complete change of scene to Piazzale Loreto, in, Milan, Italy, 1945, where Benito Mussolini and other fascist leaders are seen hanging upside down following their deaths at the hands of crowds. Adolf Hitler and Marshal Hermann Goering at Berteschgaden. Japanese Emperor Hirohito astride a white horse leading some of his senior military officers as they review assembled troops.
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