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Poster with a patriotic theme to save food (1917), issued when domestic food restrictions were applied to support the war effort. The United States Food Administration (1917–1920) was an independent federal agency that controlled the production, distribution, and conservation of food in the U.S. during the nation's participation in World War I.
The Food and Fuel Control Act, Pub. L. 65–41, 40 Stat. 276, enacted August 10, 1917, also called the Lever Act or the Lever Food Act was a World War I era US law that among other things created the United States Food Administration and the United States Fuel Administration, as well as the Price Fixing Committee of the War Industries Board.
Coles Phillips poster for the United States Fuel Administration. The United States Fuel Administration was a World War I-era agency of the Federal government of the United States established by Executive Order 2690 of August 23, 1917, pursuant to the Food and Fuel Control Act. The administration managed the use of coal and oil.
Ponder, Stephen. "Popular Propaganda: The Food Administration in World War I." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (1995) 72#3 pp. 539–50. it ran a separate propaganda campaign; Schaffer, Ronald. America in the Great War: The Rise of the War-Welfare State. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0195049039 OCLC 23145262; Vaughn ...
The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1995), Very thorough coverage. Wilson, Ross J. New York and the First World War: Shaping an American City (2014). Young, Ernest William. The Wilson Administration and the Great War (1922) online edition; Zieger, Robert H. America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience 2000 ...
In his 43 years at Tyson Foods, he transformed the company from a small chicken companyto the world's largest poultry producer. Along the way, he changed the way that America -- and the world -- eats.
The U.S. Food Administration encouraged children to consume other types of grain, and not wheat cereals during World War I. Food conservation, as the US government called it, was seen as an act of patriotism. People were encouraged to keep victory gardens or shop locally in order to conserve transportation for the war effort.
The Trump administration is attempting to shutter USAID without constitutionally mandated approval from Congress. ... War crimes investigations in ... The world today is not the one that ...