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...best the system is working on a week to week basis, since a commodity available in quantity one week is priceless the next. Meat and butter have been the latest victims of war shortages. Recently a steward planned to have roast beef for a House dinner. The order was placed and the menu printed, when the dealer announced that he could only procure lamb. Even Boston's great staple, seafood, is becoming scarce as the war intrudes upon the activities of offshore fishermen...
...Detroit, housewives bought butter at $1.25 a lb. from farmers exempt from OPA ceilings because they had sold less than $75 worth of produce the previous month...
...most important reason is bigger consumption: the Army & Navy are now eating some 200 million lb. a year-and will need more as the armed forces grow. Huge amounts of butter are being delivered for Lend-Lease-a total of 8.5 million lb. between April 1941 and October 1942, of which 5 million lb. were shipped in October alone. And U.S. civilian demand, said the Agriculture Department, could go up to 2,600 million lb. (from 2,300 million in 1941) under current ceiling prices because of the nation's increased buying power...
...face of these unusual demands, the estimated U.S. production for the year ending July 1943 is only 2,100 million lb.-130 million lb. below the 1940-41 production. Hence, to equalize supplies, the Agriculture Department last week forecast direct consumer rationing of butter. Likely level: 17.5 lb. per person a year, compared to the 20.5 lb. the average citizen would like...
Canada's wartime Prices and Trade Board decreed two simplifications for Canada's tables last week: 1) it rationed butter to half a pound per week per person; 2) it ordered porcelain manufacturers to abandon fripperies, especially cup handles...