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Department of Agriculture, “School Lunches in Country and City,” Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1899, 1942, p. 21.
    50. Amy Bentley, Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 25.
    51. Mead, “The Relationship between Food Habits.”
    52. Ibid. Emphasis in the original.
    53. “The School Lunch—A Symposium,” JHE, November 1937, p. 613.
    54. House Hearings, 1945, p. 68.
    55. CIO News, June 11, 1945.
    56. “The School Lunch—A Symposium,” 614.
    57. Mead, “The Relationship between Food Habits.”
    58. House Hearings, 1945, p. 139.
    59. Public as well as private and parochial schools were eligible. Local nonprofit organizations could also sponsor lunch programs.
    60. “The War Food Administration will help your community start a School Lunch Program,” leaflet/ad reprinted in Ladies Home Journal, October 1944.
    C HAPTER 4. A N ATIONAL S CHOOL L UNCH P ROGRAM

    1. “Has Your Child Half a Hog’s Chance?” Ladies Home Journal, October 1944.
    2. P.L. 396 passed June 4, 1946. Gordon W. Gunderson, “The National School Lunch Program: Background and Development,” Food and Nutrition Service, 63, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1971, pp. 14–15.
    3. “Truman Approves School Lunch Bill,” New York Times (hereafter, NYT) June 5, 1946.
    4. Richard E. Neustadt, “Extending the Horizons of Democratic Liberalism,” in J. Joseph Huthmacher, The Truman Years: The Reconstruction of Postwar America (Hinsdale, Ill.: Dryden Press, 1972), 81.
    5. Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), 168.
    6. Barton J. Bernstein, “The Limitations of the Liberal Vision,” in ibid., 108–9.
    7. Martha May Eliot, speech, October 1940, Martha May Eliot Papers, Box 17, Folder 236, Schlessinger Library.
    8. “Material for Dr. Eliot’s Committee, “School Lunch Phase,” n.d. (1940) Martha May Eliot Papers, Box 17, Folder 237.
    9. Faith Williams to H. L. Wilson, December 18, 1940, Martha May Eliot Papers, Box 17, Folder 237.
    10. Federal Security Agency, “Proceedings of the National Nutrition Conference for Defense,” May 26–28, 1941 (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1942), 98.
    11. H. M. Southworth and M. I. Klayman, “The School Lunch Program and Agricultural Surplus Disposal” (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Agricultural Economics, USDA, 1941), iii.
    12. See Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890–1935 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
    13. United States Congress, Senate Subcommittee on Agriculture and Forestry, Hearings on Bills to Assist the States to Establish and Maintain School-Lunch Programs, May 2–5, 1944, 78th Cong. 2nd Sess. (hereafter Senate Hearings 1944), 52.
    14. Ibid., 93.
    15. United States Congress, House Committee on Agriculture, Hearings on the School Lunch Program, 79th Cong., 1st Sess., March 23–May 24, 1945 (hereafter, House Hearings, 1945), 88.
    16. Senate Hearings, 1944, p. 49.
    17. Pete Alcock, Howard Glennerster, Ann Oakley, and Adrian Sinfield, eds., Welfare and Wellbeing: Richard Titmuss’s Contribution to Social Policy (Bristol: Policy Press, 2001), 83–84; and James Vernon, “The Ethnics of Hunger and the Assembly of Society: The Techno-Politics of the School Meal in Modern Britain,” American Historical Review 110, no. 3 (June 2005): 693–725.
    18. Sidney Baldwin, Poverty and Politics: The Rise and Decline of the Farm Security Administration (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968), 236; and Walter W. Wilcox, The Farmer in the Second World War (Ames: Iowa State College Press, 1947), 364–67. The largest growth was 1933–39, when the number of employees went from 21,023 to 59,113.
    19. Congressional Record: 79th Cong., 2d Sess., 92:2, February 19,