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Rolled Roast. In Great Falls, Mont., the Andrew Cowans prepared to enjoy a 47-ration-point pot roast that Cowan had helped prepare, presently found that even the gravy was tough, at length discovered he had innocently rolled it in plaster of Paris...
...northern New Jersey, OPA officials gave up trying to enforce the pleasure-driving ban; inspectors stopped snooping, stole away. Said one: "The maze of conflicting rulings from Washington and local ration boards has placed inspectors on the spot. I'm tired of being called a sneak and a Gestapo agent...
...citizens got Ration Book No. 3 by simply dipping into the mailbox. For Ration Books 1 & 2 they had had to wait in line and fill out questionnaires. The slick new red-tape-slashing scheme had gotten its inventor, Philip Holzer, 24-year-old OPA clerk (TIME, May 3) a temporary draft deferment and had given the U.S. Post Office its biggest delivery...
...Good Bureaucrat Holzer reported to Fort Myer, Va., was assigned to the Navy as an apprentice seaman in the Seabees. Given the Navy's usual week furlough before going on active duty, Clerk Holzer turned up at the New York OPA office, spent the week helping mail more Ration Books...
Canadians are horrified at the red-tape complexity of OPA forms. Canadians merely signed their names for ration books, didn't have to account for how many pounds of groceries they owned last November. Canada's fixed price on used tires is simply 40% of what a new tire costs; OPA defines price differences down to one-sixteenth inch of tire thickness...