Supply Chain Challenges and Food Relief
Unloading Fruit, Lake Wales, Florida, 1931, Courtesy of the Library of Congress
During the Great Depression The federal government ran into serious supply chain and logistics problems in its surplus food relief distribution program. States with an abundance of an item received shipments of the same item yet found it difficult to receive that which they lacked. This was the case with oranges in South Carolina and pork in Daytona Beach Florida, where residents already ate too much pork. Chief investigator for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration Lorena Hickok to Federal Civil Works Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, Columbia, South Carolina, Winter 1934,
