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...Oregon housewife, holding her temper firmly in check, sent her ration board a restrained greeting: "34 blue stamps, 34 red stamps. 15 Ibs. of sugar invalidated. Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year...
...planned to ration most of the foods which had become point-free earlier this year: meat (including utility-grade beef), canned vegetables, fats...
...maybe "six months from now." There might be minor shortages in specific spots from lack of transport. But this is not surprising, considering the fact that U.S. soldiers are firing, every minute of every day, more than two tons of steel at the Germans. There would certainly be rationing of ammunition, as there has always been in every war. Any artillery or infantry commands which did not ration their fire would be guilty of a tactical error...
...Food and Clothing. The only additions to the weekly ration . . . were vegetables grown in the garden and the eggs provided by six hens known to readers of this column as the Six Little Suckers. The Six Little Suckers now at The Nest are not the original Suckers. Some have died of layers' cramp, some have been killed by dear little doggies, and some, weary of their concentration camp and disgusting food, have committed suicide by wedging their heads into the wire netting and twisting their own necks. But apart from the few who took the coward...
...eats a third less than the U.S. soldier and can get along on much less than that. His usual ration in active theaters is about 3½ lbs. a day, mostly rice, generously supplemented with vitamin pills...