Wheat and Flour subject to review monthly in respect of three months ahead, such review being made in the light of the stock and forward arrivals positions. It has only been made because unless it had been the very strong probability was that the United States War Department would have determined to procure the same if not at the expense of the U.K. import more of these articles programme. The following table shows the trend, since the beginning of the war, of the calorie value of bulk stocks of the principal foods: Index of bulk stocks of principal foods based on calorie values (End-August 1939 = 100) 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 End January 93 124 169 143 202 " April 113 118 173 155 200 (a) " July 125 158 174 177 " October 75 132 169 159 197 (a) forecast.