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...Ration Note. At the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, the specialists who remove foreign objects from digestive tracts reported a wartime boom in chicken-and fish-bones...
...intrepid pioneers of science announced a stomach-shaking discovery last week. Drs. Alfred H. Free and Jack R. Leonards, both biochemists at the medical school of Cleveland's Western Reserve University, first stuffed themselves on horse meat. (They would have preferred beef but lacked the ration points.) Then for several days they fasted, testing their blood at intervals...
Tokens of Affection. In Milwaukee, a woman clerk at a local ration board was found to have handed out to her friends, since Christmas, 50,000 blue points, 50,000 red points, coupons for 3,500 lbs. of sugar and an undetermined number of shoe coupons...
...Some increase in the basic gasoline ration for cars and trucks (A-card holders might get an extra gallon for each coupon...
...result, flour mills were preparing to ration flour to bakers. Several Western railroads resorted to the last-ditch measure of shipping wheat in coal cars...