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...Portland the supply of meat averaged out to only 8 oz. of meat per person, instead of the 2½ lb. a week the Government set as a voluntary ration. Six Portland packing plants had to stop operations for lack of supply...
...Found itself up against it with local ration boards in obtaining gas & tires...
...than he could promise last week. Food controls which have been scattered through eleven Washington agencies are now mostly in his hands. He has full supervision of setting food requirements for Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and civilians. He takes charge of food marketing, distribution, priorities, allocations and decisions to ration. His cumbersome Agriculture Department, with all the bureaus that have grown up over the years, is simplified into a production division and a distribution division-a framework that will permit Wickard to reshape his organization for greater efficiency...
Workers in heavy war industries receive ration cards for 1 Ib. 9 oz. of bread daily; monthly allotments of if 1¾b. of butter; 4 Ib. 7 oz. of meal; 1 Ib. 2 oz. of sugar; 4 Ib. 14 oz. of meat; 2 Ib. 3 oz. of fish; 14 oz. of salt; 1 oz. of tea. Those doing less heavy work, children and dependents get roughly two-thirds as much. But ration cards cannot provide food when there is none. Doctors estimate that Russians have lost an average of 15 pounds each during the past year. Although bread lines...
...Compensation. In Miami, Asa Sebits arrived from Detroit with a new ambulance for delivery to the Red Cross, explained how he had got gasoline en route without a ration book. Two celebrating soldiers he had picked up had passed out, and Sebits told a gas station operator they were dead. The operator took a look, believed him, filled the tank. Donor of the ambulance: the W.C.T.U...