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Swiss Use Ingenuity to Survive Food Shortages
The article details Switzerland's wartime self sufficiency efforts through extended cultivation, converting land for farming, draining swamps, and using railroad rights of way for crops. It notes imports of grain and oils, the development of oil from coffee grounds and tobacco seeds, and gasogene cars powering on wood and charcoal. Refugees are employed in work camps to aid farming, tailoring, and carpentry.
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Switzerland
Stenger
Europe