bread-needs

Updated: May 15, 2025

There had to be, in other words, a constant bringing in of enough wheat and flour to supply three fourths of the bread-needs of the whole country, and another large fraction of the necessary fats and milk and rice and beans and other staples. This was the ravitaillement.

Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg - Herbert Hoover: The Man and His Work