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...Sugar ration cards were on Washington presses last week. "Within a few weeks," said Leon Henderson, consumers will be rationed to 50 lb. per person for 1942 (v. last year's consumption, including hoarding, of 74 lb.).* Industrial sugar users will also have to reduce their sugar use by about one third...
...determined to devote "at least one-half" of national production to the war effort. > The major Federal aid programs-farm aid, work relief, youth aid-can be reduced by about one-half, to about 1.4 billion dollars during fiscal 1943. But the President abolished none of them, merely short-rationed each program. > New taxes of seven billion dollars must be levied, plus another two billion dollars of social-security collections (this latter fund would not reduce the deficit; would serve as a post-war works-financing cushion) (see p. 15). > To control inflation the President called for a rounded, integrated...
...nobody has doped out a way to reallocate the jumpy housewife's unmeasured hoard. If she plays squirrel again as she did in 1939 (TIME, Sept. 18, 1939) ration cards will be the only way to keep her calmer neighbor in sugar...
...remote." To the conditioned reflexes of the average citizen, that was enough to make the sugar scare scarier. Plenty of housewives had found the corner grocery store limiting their purchases to 2-5 lb. or less; Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Hershey Chocolate and other big sugar users were rationing customers to their 1940 consumption; there were whispers that the Government was printing sugar ration cards. What was the sugar score...
...employes can perhaps get new jobs. But the hapless dealers must stick to their posts, get rid of the 400,000-plus new cars they hold, pay off bank loans, try to sublet their showrooms to butchers and grocers. In this they will need help. As part of the rationing plan now in the Washington works, dealers will get easy-payment Federal or private loans to carry their new cars until bought by some lucky holder of a ration card...