FDR: “I think that there is a way of holding the cost of essential foods down to a ceiling.”

The Federal Loan Administrator and the War Food Administrator are hereby designated as additional members of the Economic Stabilization Board.

I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fighting afloat in this great war.

It will recommend agricultural policies and advise Nations on their food and agricultural problems, but it will have no power to coerce or command.

It may be in another week or ten days.