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...Notable exceptions: 70 patrons of an Atlanta parking lot where an obliging Negro attendant beat the deadline by filling every tank to the brim, collected money and ration coupons afterward, earned undying gratitude and $35 in tips...
...Baltimore's Pennsylvania Station one evening last week, Price Boss Leon Henderson stepped into the arms of a welcoming committee from Local Ration Board 234.3, all set to rib him, themselves and their mutual works at a "Smileage Rationing" party...
...source for bootleggers, OPA has just about dried up the stolen-coupon pool. OPA hopes that the new requirements for ODT approval of truck and taxi mileage will undercut the other big source - commercial operators who get more than they really need, "lose" ration books etc. Boot leg coupons are usually sold (for 3-5? a gallon) to gas stations which pass the gas on to unwitting joyriders as a "favor" (at a 100-200% markup over cost...
Black Sugar. Because the sugar ration is more than enough for most householders, the black market - and its source of supply - is confined largely to big industrial users at the wholesale level. Biggest buyers are illegal operators of stills. Biggest sources: coupon counterfeiting and industrial users who have excess sugar through false applications, undeclared inventories, etc. Most spectacular arraignment so far: New York City's ex-convict and bootlegger Waxey Gordon. Fortunately, U.S. Treasury Alcohol Tax Unit sleuths help it track down illegal sugar traffic...
...sheer lack of tires, first black-market commodity, has today almost eliminated them from off-the-market deals. But OPA is still catching up with the bootleg tire gangs that flourished in the days when there were still some to bootleg. In contrast, coffee is still too newly rationed for the gangs to have caught up with it, may well be too scarce (and too precious to the consumers who have all the ration cou pons) ever to become a serious problem...