Fallout Shelter Food Sent Abroad To Aid Famine Nations
Millions of pounds of shelter stockpile food from the 1960s are being donated to hungry nations. States and communities report distributing survival crackers to Bangladesh and other countries as shelf life expires. Some counties divert supplies for livestock, zoos, or landfill to free storage space.
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Louisiana
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Bangladesh
Washington
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Nicaragua
Edward W. Kroll
Dane County
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Ford pledges more food aid with own-supply rule
President Ford told the United Nations the US will boost food aid while urging nations to manage their own supplies. He avoided promising large grain shipments of the past and said the increase will cover immediate needs, though no cost figure was given.
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Ford
United States
United Nations
Agriculture Department
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Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
USDA
Foreign Agricultural Service
Ohio Dairy Farmers Urge Higher Milk Price Support
A National Farmers Union delegation met with White House officials including Dr. Norman Ross to press for higher milk price support. Ohio participants Jack Rose and Max McMichael described a productive session and warned that Ohio dairy farms face closures, with 1,000 farmers out since July 1973 and a 20 percent drop in production over ten years.
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National Farmers Union
White House
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Ohio
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