The food crisis in 2008, which saw the stocks empty out and the prices skyrocket, even introduced a popular demand for the introduction of emergency stocks of agricultural produce in the EU, which would help stabilise prices both on the very volatile markets.
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The factory was also used to produce machine parts for Heinkel aircraft . Several of the workshops served as storage areas for emergency stocks of agricultural products and food and part of the factory and housing area was used as a concentration camp.
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When the health minister finally took an air force plane to Surat on Saturday, he was confronted by angry doctors who said emergency stocks of medicines promised by the government had still not arrived days after New Delhi had said they had been delivered.
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A failure to get the required letters of credit this week could force the Energy Department to reopen some of the bids, preventing the release of all 30 million barrels of oil from the government's emergency stocks before the end of November as planned, department officials said.
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It was the king, Jordanian officials say, who assumed the leading role in orchestrating a change of government in August, replacing a team tarred by evidence that its mismanagement was to blame for a water crisis so severe that Saudi Arabia and Syria sent emergency stocks to the rescue.
