![Offbeat Oregon History podcast show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/039/188/small/offbeat-oregon-history-audio-edition.jpg)
Summary: When World War I broke out, Herbert Hoover was the world's most successful mining engineer. He abandoned all that to build an organization to feed the starving, first in Belgium and then throughout war-torn Europe. (London, UK; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1702c.herbert-hoover-in-belgium-431.html)