As German forces launched what would become their final major offensive on the Western Front in March 1918, President Woodrow Wilson’s Food Administrator, Herbert Hoover, identified what he called “one of the most vital problems confronting the nation”: a shortage of sugar. Demand had surged. Soldiers needed sugar in their rations, while producers and civilians relied on it to preserve and can food for the war effort. At the same time, supply ha…
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