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...coupon books are on sale today, costing $12.00 and admitting the bearer to all home games in every sport, including football, with a few exceptions. The Freshmen will sit as a group, along the track in the Stadium, and up under the Colonnade...
...public last week heard the chilling facts of fuel-oil rationing: why (lack of transportation), how (coupon books), how much (to heat homes to 65 degrees). But WPBoss Donald Nelson still kept to himself two other vital details: when (OPA experts guessed Oct. 15) and where (Nelson's special rationing committee week before had agreed on all States east of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, but this was not certain...
Which of four basic rationing systems to use still bothers OPA rationeers, who are mulling over: 1) the unit system now in effect on sugar and gasoline; 2) the bloc system (e.g., tea or coffee on one coupon, with the privilege of buying either); 3) the value system (each coupon good for so many cents' worth of a commodity); 4) the point system (the government controlling the number of points for each commodity...
This, the newest of all rackets, is so simple that a moron could work it. A station owner, patronized by an A-card holder known to him, sells ten gallons of gas and clips but one coupon. The extra seven gallons, if there is ever a question raised, can be explained away as a sale to a second customer holding an X-card. There is no means of checking the story, for the station owner is careful not to sell more over the limit to a stranger who might be an OPA investigator. Cheating of this type has been common...
Last week Lord Woolton (on orders from the Cabinet) went a step further. Partly to conserve more food but mainly to stop the rich going to restaurants for coupon-free meals after their rations at home are all eaten, he banned the serving of food after n p.m., limited the sale of fish, game and poultry to specified days. There was also talk that Lord Woolton would set a price ceiling of five shillings ($1) for restaurant meals...