Food

Breadline in Berlin, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Preparations for the first televised address at the White House, Sunday, October 5, 1947. President Harry S. Truman (left, behind lectern) urged viewers to save food for Europe. Charles Luckman, Chairman of the Citizen's Food Committee, stands next to the president. A cameraman looks through a large television camera at right. From: Charles Ross Papers, 12x18 Metal Album.

Civilians with oxen and carts carrying rice for South Korean Army troops near Pusan, Korea.

Charles Luckman, Chairman of the President's Citizen's Food Committee, displays the new food saving poster at his first press conference at the White House. From: Beth Gore

President Truman reported to the nation tonight on the food situation, as did Charles Luckman, right, head of the Citizen's Food Committee. It marked the first time that television has entered the White House to televise a broadcast, as photographed here. From: Beth Gore

In line with President Truman's appeal to the public to save 100 million bushels of grain in the next nine months, the committee appointed by the President called on Americans to adopt a five-point food conservation program. Charles Luckman, Chairman of the Citizen's Food Committee, is shown with many of the posters to be used in the conservation campaign. From: Beth Gore

Unidentified people stand outside a TWA airplane receiving packages for Margaret Truman's food relief program. From: A leather bound album of ten 8 x 10 photos showing Margaret Truman participating in a brief program in which a token shipment of relief food was placed aboard a TWA Constellation bound for Paris, France.

Margaret Truman, participating in a food relief program, stands outside a TWA Constellation airplane with Captain John Dobberteen, receiving packages from unidentified women. From: A leather bound album of 10 8 x 10 photos showing Margaret Truman participating in a brief program which a token shipment of relief food was placed aboard a TWA Constellation bound for Paris, France.

Margaret Truman, participating in a food relief program, stands outside a TWA Constellation airplane receiving packages from unidentified women. From: A leather bound album of 10 8 x 10 photos showing Margaret Truman participating in a brief program which a token shipment of relief food was placed aboard a TWA Constellation bound for Paris, France.

Margaret Truman, participating in a food relief program, stands aboard a TWA Constellation airplane with a pilot and others. From: A leather bound album of 10 8 x 10 photos showing Margaret Truman participating in a brief program which a token shipment of relief food was placed aboard a TWA Constellation bound for Paris, France.