The following table shows the trend, since the beginning of the war, of the calorie values of the bulk stocks of the principal foods:- (end-August 1939 = 100) 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 - - 102 119 166 144 195 163 End March June - 134 146 180 168 200 151(a) " September 82 132 164 162 187 200 " December 84 131 173 150 204 197 (a) forecast III. LEND/LEASE SUPPLIES In the first quarter of the year arrivals in the U.K. of Lend/ Lease supplies of U.S.A. origin averaged 22 thousand tons per week, approximately the same as in the first quarter of 1944.