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...this year (about 87% of last year's supply and 77% of 1941's). Worse still: because of excess consumption in the early months of this year, less than 47% of the civilian supply will remain for the last half of the year (which because of canning normally takes 55%). So there will be at least 30% less sugar available for civilians this fall than last...
...make matters worse, more bungling in rationing is allowing over half of this year's sugar to be used up in the first six months of 1945, and before the big demand for summer canning...
John H. Casey, Jr--Angela Canning (Providence...
Pamphlets and treatises poured from the printers. Dubious facts in her story were endlessly recalled and debated. Justice Henry Fielding (author of Tom Jones and presiding justice at Bet's first hearing) wrote passionately: "Elizabeth Canning is a poor, honest, innocent, simple soul, and the most unhappy and most injured of all human beings...
Some hinted that Bet Canning was wrote...