The New York Times ran an editorial last week about the global hunger crisis. Food prices are high and the numbers of hungry people, already at nearly one billion, will skyrocket. If you have been an avid reader of the Times going back many, many years, your reaction might be deja vu. In fact, in September of 1947 the Times ran an editorial titled, "Problem Number One: Food."
At that time President Harry Truman was confronted with high food prices on the home front, and war-torn countries abroad were feeling the crushing weight.
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