Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

The pay envelope of tens of millions of our citizens will not compensate them for great increases in their food bills.

I cannot sit back and fail to advocate other measures such as limited consumers' subsidies which I am convinced can help to prevent the cost...

I can not do this for the reason that I do not believe such subsidies will be effective in controlling inflation unless they are accompanied...

I know of no better method of coordinating the work of the Food Administrator and the Price Administrator.