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IMMEDIATE ELEASE
NOVEMBER 29, 1946
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The President today called attention to the favorable
situation in the procurement of grain for export to people in need
abroad, to the difficulties in rail transportation of grain for this
purpose, and to the modification in the restrictions on domestic use
of grain.
Exports of grain, together with wheat purchased or under
contract by the Department of Agriculture and amounts to be shipped
as flour, are sufficient to reach the original goal of 267 million
bushels for the year ending June 30, 1947. Good crops of all grains
and a record corn crop made it possible later to raise this goal to
a total of 400 million bushels of wheat, corn and other grains.
It now appears that it would be possible to make available
for export as much as 550 million bushels of all grains if sufficient
transportation could be obtained. However, owing largely to the
shortage of box-cars, there are difficulties even in the movement of
as much as 400 million bushels.
In view of the continuing urgent need for food abroad,
the Office of Defense Transportation is being asked by the President
to make every effort to supply the necessary transportation for ex-
port grain and, if necessary, to provide preferential treatment to
move grain for this purpose.
Because of the favorable grain supply situation and in
the light of transportation difficulties, modifications in the
restrictions on the domestic use of grain are being announced by
Socretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson.
The Department of Agriculture will take the following
actions:
1. Remove the limitation on the domestic distribution of
flour.
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2. Permit br ewers, for the quarter beginning December 1,
1946, to use as much grain as in the corresponding months of 1945
and 1946, but retain the prohibiti in lagainst their use of wheat and
the limitation on the use of rice.
3. Permit distillers to use unlimited quantities of corn
below grade 3, but retain the prohibition against their use of wheat
and the limitation on their us of rye.
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