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...demanded it, out of necessity, and they asked not a 20% but a 25% reduction. Filling stations may remain open not more than twelve hours a day, six days a week. This temporary restriction may soon become formal: every motorist in those States will then have to have a ration card...
Before the sugar ration cards are shuffled, it would be wise to see who forced the deal. Although the press has promoted a campaign to point the reproving finger at housewives, a logical examination of sugar consumption unmasks the subterfuge. Had not Leon Henderson's stamp plan already nullified their small hoardings, it could still be shown that every housewife in the land could stock her pantry, fill her attic and basement, and still not equal the consumption of the soft drink, chewing gum, and whiskey industries. Each of them takes an average of a billion tons of sugar...
...coal ration per family was reduced to 112 pounds weekly; gasoline from five to four gallons...
...opinion of the War Department, mail ranks second only to food as a buck-you-uppo for morale. On ration trains, mail goes to the troops right along with food. But cargo space is priceless. Last week the War Department, taking a tip from the British, decided to speed mail deliveries by photographing batches of letters on microfilm and flying them to world-scattered bases. There the letters, to be known as "V-Mail," will be turned into enlarged prints before delivery...
...citizens consume about 115 lb. of sugar a year per capita-twice the sugar ration of any other country, almost ten times what the U.S. used less than 100 years ago. Many dental researchers are sure that this excessive proportion of sugar accounts for the fact that caries (tooth decay) is the commonest U.S. disease. Fruit can satisfy the craving for something sweet, and the chemistry of the saliva and the digestive juices automatically convert the starch of bread, potatoes, corn, etc. to the sugars the body needs...