Permanant Mobilization, perpetual profits

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Sec. 310. Critical Items. The head of each agency engaged in procurement for the national defense is delegated the authority of the President under section 107(b)(1) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App.2077(b)(1), to take appropriate action to ensure that critical components, critical technology items, essential materials, and  industrial resources are available from reliable sources when needed to meet defense requirements during peacetime, graduated  mobilization, and national emergency. Appropriate action may include restricting contract solicitations to reliable sources,  restricting contract solicitations to domestic sources (pursuant to statutory authority), stockpiling critical components, and developing substitutes for critical components or critical technology items.
"Civil transportation" also shall include direction, control, and coordination of civil transportation capacity regardless of ownership. (e) "Food resources" means all commodities and products, (simple, mixed, or compound), or complements to such commodities or products, that are capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals, irrespective of other uses to which such commodities or products may be put, at all stages of processing from the raw commodity to the products thereof in vendible form for human or animal consumption. "Food resources" also means potable water packaged in commercially marketable containers, all starches, sugars, vegetable and animal or marine fats and oils, seed, cotton, hemp, and flax fiber, but does not mean any such material after it loses its identity as an agricultural commodity or agricultural product.