National Security and Defense Fund
The President of the United States' National Security and Defense Fund was a $ 50 million grant from Congress during World War I for occasional emergencies where it would not have been desirable to accept the delay through a special permit.
reference
- Frank M. Surface / Raymond L. Bland: American Food in the World War and Reconstruction Period. Operations of the Organizations Under the Direction of Herbert Hoover 1914 to 1924 , Stanford University Press, Stanford 1931, p. 88