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00:00 [music]

00:18 The whole world is aflame.

00:20 All the peoples of the United Nations are fighting the savage enemies of freedom.

00:25 In many lands, towns are ravaged, countrysides laid waste by ruthless Axis hordes.

00:30 Farms, cattle, and crops have been destroyed.

00:33 Ruin, destitution, hunger stalk the helpless victims of the cruel aggressor.

00:39 But in their darkest hour comes a light of hope, a light that must grow stronger and will grow stronger.

00:45 It is the hope of American agriculture.

00:48 Though this nation must fight to keep invaders from its own shores,

00:51 its farmlands are abundant, greater even than the areas of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Spain,

00:57 Portugal, France, Switzerland, Great Britain, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Holland, Yugoslavia, and Greece.

01:05 And spread over this vast land are the farmers, their wives, and their children.

01:10 Thirty million, twice as many as the Axis has soldiers.

01:15 Grim farmers with sleeves rolled up, ready for sacrifices.

01:19 These embattled farmers are armed.

01:22 Their weapons are the panzer forces of Food's Battle Line, farm machinery.

01:27 Battalions of combines, regiments of trucks, divisions of corn pickers, potato diggers, planting machines,

01:34 columns of milking machines, and all these machines kept in repair by farmers and their sons under the stress of war.

01:41 These farmers pouring out bumper crops to fill many a bare cupboard.

01:46 The farmer with his wheat crop for this year, 52,800,000,000 pounds of wheat.

01:51 If all this wheat were made into flour, there'd be enough to snow under the entire German panzer army.

01:57 Looks to me like another Russian winter.

02:00 Or if all this flour had been baked into bread, there would be enough loaves to build an Egyptian pyramid.

02:05 And another, and another, and another.

02:07 Placed a mile apart, they'd stretch the length of the Suez Canal.

02:11 Supposing this flour had been made into spaghetti.

02:14 Look at the sweater you could knit. Just a snug fit for old Mother Earth.

02:18 Corn, 2,850,000,000 bushels.

02:22 If all this were grown into one huge ear, it would make a bridge from London to the Black Sea.

02:27 And that hangs right over your head, Adolf.

02:30 Soybeans, 160,000,000 bushels.

02:33 Ground into flour, it would make a loaf that would fill Red Square in Moscow.

02:37 And it has double the nutritive value of meat.

02:40 Potatoes, 30,000,000,000 pounds. Just about twice as high as the Rock of Gibraltar.

02:45 Some potatoes.

02:47 Here we have the Matterhorn in Switzerland.

02:49 And this year's crop of tomatoes, 1,800,000,000 pounds.

02:54 Vegetables, all kinds of them.

02:56 There'd be enough to cover the wall of China.

02:58 One billion bushels of them.

03:00 Yes, and we're producing vitamins and food concentrates packed with enough power to bowl over the Axis nation.

03:06 That was vitamin X, boys.

03:09 Just to mark the spot.

03:12 Fruit juices, billions of gallons.

03:15 If pressed from our fruit crop of 35,000,000,000 pounds,

03:18 there would be enough to keep old faithful Geyser gushing for nearly four months.

03:22 Or if all the fruit were made into one enormous pie, it would measure 25 miles in diameter.

03:27 My, what a time a pie thrower could have with that.

03:30 [crash]

03:32 Milk, 125,000,000,000 pounds of it.

03:36 If all this flowed over Niagara Falls in a steady stream,

03:39 it would generate enough electricity to light every factory in New York for one hour.

03:43 And besides, we'd have enough to give our children free milk with school lunches.

03:48 Or should we churn this milk into butter,

03:50 war-flooded fields of Holland could be reclaimed by dikes it would build.

03:55 And if made into cheese, it would make a piece equivalent to this much of the moon.

03:59 Just imagine a fire made from four volcanoes the size of Vesuvius

04:03 and a griddle 500 square miles in area.

04:06 That's what it would take to broil the 30,000,000,000 pounds of meat American farms are producing.

04:12 This little girl grown plump on a diet of our 11,000,000,000 pounds of fats and oils

04:17 would outweigh 100 super dreadnoughts.

04:19 And what's more, she'd black out all of Berlin.

04:23 [music]

04:25 American hens are busy too, laying 50,000,000,000 eggs.

04:29 If all these were made into one huge fried egg, it would cover all the United States and Canada.

04:35 And don't forget we have enough bacon to go around it.

04:38 And here come the pigs, 100,000,000 strong.

04:41 Just think of it, two pigs for every person in Great Britain and Ireland combined.

04:48 Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

04:51 Not the farmer of the United States who works and sacrifices to fill the holds of victory ships.

04:56 Ships turned out by men and women working night and day.

04:59 Ships that must be fought through dark oceans where submarines learn.

05:03 Ships guarded by aircraft, more and more of them.

05:07 Ships protected by the blasting fire of men of war.

05:10 [explosions]

05:12 Ships loaded with food for freedom, produced, fought through, and delivered to all who fight

05:18 for the freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from what?

05:24 Freedom from fear.

05:26 Under this insignia is shipped food that will win the war.

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Food Will Win the War (1942)

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