DAKOTA DATEBOOK: How Fruit Pits Helped Win the Great War

World War I made a shambles of the European economy. Starvation was a real threat as farms became battlefields and agricultural workers became soldiers. When the United States entered the war in 1917, the country became an active partner with the allies, and Americans faced shortages of their own. President Woodrow Wilson established the Food Administration to manage the supply, conservation, and …