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...black markets, where the only challenge to prices was the law of supply & demand. OPA announced the seizure of 50 million red ration coupons (enough points to buy a total week's supply of beef for U.S. civilians), worth an estimated $2.5 million to the counterfeiters. This rich haul surprised no one in OPA or the meat industry. The only secret about the vast nationwide black market in meat is the exact number of millions of animals diverted to this trade each year...
...Roomy. In Kansas City, Kans., a ration board which took an applicant to task for never "sharing the ride" promptly learned the cause of his solitude: "I haul garbage...
After a plea from Solid Fuels Administrator Ickes, some 65,000 miners labored underground an extra day, getting out the coal. But production dropped anyhow, mainly because there were no rail cars to haul the coal to the freezing cities. On top of this, a temporary food shortage was on the way in many an Eastern city. Freight trains as far west as California were shunted on to sidings to wait till the snarl untangled. While they waited, many a grocer cleaned out his shelves...
...would haul away any movable items-jeeps, trucks, road-building machinery, etc.-she wants. Canada's Government will have first crack at whatever is left, at appraisers' fixed prices. The rest will be turned over to the Dominion's War Assets Corp., which will retail them to civilians, give the proceeds (after costs...
There U.S. warplanes had a good haul. They sank 41 enemy ships and damaged 28 more (almost 200,000 tons). The toll included two entire convoys, a Katori-class light cruiser and the dismantled French cruiser Lamotte-Picquet. But the most damaging blows were the sinkings of tankers bearing oil from the Indies and strikes against oil refineries at Saigon. The enemy put up what aircraft he could to defend his supposedly sheltered outposts; 112 were shot down...