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...situation looked desperate last week to the National Golf Foundation, which urged a ball-rationing scheme on the 2,200 U.S. golf pros. For each old ball turned in, the golfer would get a ration coupon for future delivery of a reprocessed one. No coupon, no ball. The N.G.F. balefully added: no balls, no golf...
...addition to some vegetables, each adult gets a ration of nine oz. of rice daily (compared to average prewar consumption of 15.52 oz. and a 1941 ration of 11.68 oz.). Unrationed eggplant, salted turnips and radishes help fill empty bellies; the black market flourishes despite strict police control. Clothing is of poor quality and severely rationed. This winter most public buildings are unheated...
Delicacy. In Minneapolis, Ronald Lair handed over $27 and his ration book to a robber, later explained his 24-hour delay in reporting it to the police: "I didn't know who this holdup fellow was, never saw him before, so naturally I didn't know if I should say anything about...
...really & truly simple. Date of the gift is Feb. 27, but last week, well in advance, OPA was proudly explaining about its new change-making food tokens. The fiber tokens (see cut) will be red for meats and fats, blue for processed foods. Each token will be worth one ration point. All red and blue food stamps will be worth ten points, no matter what the figures already printed on them. Stamps will remain valid for twelve weeks instead of the current four. Use of the tokens will mean no more brown stamps...
...Food Rationer Walter Straub figures that the tokens will save shopkeepers an annual $35 million worth of time otherwise spent sorting stamps. The American taxpayer, he judges, will save $1.5 million every time a new ration book is not issued...