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Soon every U.S. citizen will have his first wartime rationing book: a folder of 28 stamps, each good for one week's ration (probably ¾ Ib.) of sugar. Housewives will get their books at neighborhood schools; grocers will collect stamps for every sugar sale, pass them on to wholesalers in order to replenish their own supplies...
...prevent hoarding, no rationing book will be issued unless the applicant states that the family has no more than 2 Ib. of sugar on hand for each member (penalty for lying: up to ten years' imprisonment or a $10,000 fine). To prevent profiteering, Price Boss Leon Henderson advised housewives to protest loudly if prices go much above 6? a Ib., threatened a retail-price ceiling if such protests are ignored...
...Bahamas Handicap, first noteworthy horse race of the Florida season; before a crowd of 16,000; at Miami's Hialeah Park. Among the also-rans was Alsab, wonder horse of 1941, who was making his debut as a three-year-old. Alsab was assigned top weight of 128 Ib. (14 more than American Wolf), went to the post odds-on favorite, finished sixth in the field...
Last week N.B.A.F. also announced that for every pound of aluminum it fabricated twelve days ago, it now fabricates three. When the new workers are trained, N.B.A.F. will double that, produce 6,000,000 Ib. monthly...
...worst fires in Cleveland's recent history, but it took John L. Schmeller just six days to get back in production. He is executive vice president of National Bronze & Aluminum Foundry Co., whose big Laisy Avenue plant fabricated 1,000,000 Ib. of aluminum a month for U.S. warplanes, tanks, ships. One Tuesday last September, fire gutted the entire 141,000 square feet. A more thorough job ($2,000,000 worth of damage) could not have been done by mass bombing...