In like manner the Tobacco Control Act of 1934 was aimed at improving conditions in the tobacco-growing industry by placing it on a sound financial and economic basis and by eliminating unfair competition and practices in the production and marketing of tobacco entering into the channels of interstate and foreign commerce. Moreover the Act was in general designed to “relieve the present emergency with respect to tobacco.”[91] The Sugar Act of 1937 permitted the President to suspend certain of its provisions upon a finding that a national economic or other emergency exists with respect to sugar or liquid sugar.[92] The President found conditions sufficiently severe in the sugar industry to declare a sugar emergency in 1939, 1942, and 1947.[93] A 1942 Presidential Proclamation noted that codfish constituted one of the basic staples in the diet of the low-income groups in Puerto Rico. Unfortunately, the war imposed severe limitations on this import from Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador, thereby vitally affecting Puerto Ricans dependent on this basic food in their diet.[94] The President sought a quick remedy by invoking the emergency provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930[95] to authorize the duty-free importation of “jerked beef ... a satisfactory substitute for codfish,” at least according to the proclamation. Invoking the same statute, the President, again in April 1942, authorized the duty-free importation of food, clothes, and medical, surgical, and other supplies by or directly for the account of The American National Red Cross for use by that agency in emergency relief work in connection with the “war emergency.”[96] EMERGENCIES OCCASIONED BY NATURAL CATASTROPHES _Drought_: Two statutes and one Presidential Proclamation in this category attribute emergency conditions to drought. In February 1934 Congress authorized the Farm Credit Administration to make loans for feed for livestock in drought- and storm-stricken areas.[97] The Emergency Appropriation Act for fiscal 1935 appropriated funds to meet the emergency and necessity for relief in stricken agricultural areas and in another section referred to “the present drought emergency.”[98] The Presidential Proclamation noting that an unusual lack of rain in several western and mid-western states had caused an acute shortage of feed for livestock,[99] declared an emergency under the suitable provision of the 1930 Tariff Act and authorized suspension of duties on livestock feeds. Only livestock owners in the affected area were eligible to benefit from duty free livestock feeds.[100] The Communications Act of 1934[101] and its 1951 amendment[102] grant the President certain powers in time “of public peril or disaster.” The other statutes provide for existing or anticipated emergencies attributable to earthquake, flood, tornado, cyclone, hurricane, conflagration and landslides.[103]