1945 - Food Availability

Food Availability

Japan mobilizes schoolchildren to gather more than a million metric tons of acorns for use in flour making to supplement scarce wheat and rice stocks.

Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe (CARE) is founded as a private relief organization to help deal with the misery widespread on the Continent. CARE ships ready-assembled U.S. food packages of good quality to the European families and friends of people in America for $10 each, including transportation, with delivery guaranteed at a time when packages sent through normal channels are highly susceptible to loss, theft, or damage.

Italians only reluctantly accept pea-soup powder sent to relieve hunger because it is so unfamiliar, but powdered eggs gain universal acceptance.

U.S. food rationing on all items except sugar ends November 23, but food remains scarce in most of the world. Black markets flourish throughout Europe.