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...dining hall is named to Thomas Jefferson Cowie, in whose honor a plaque is hung on the wall stating: "Thomas Jefferson Cowie, Rear Admiral Supply Corps, U. S. Navy. At his insistence, the first attempts to serve a healthily balanced ration in the Navy were made in in 1882 on board the U. S. S. New Hampshire. He banished 'salt horse and cracker bash' from the high seas...
...question now was whether retailers would have enough stocks left by Nov. 29 to supply holders of ration tickets. To many a grocer, it looked as if WPB would have to abandon its 65% roasting ceiling for a while-something that WPB has thus far flatly refused to do. Certainly something must give: if the start of rationing finds many citizens unable to use their ration tickets, the coffee comedy will cease to be funny. Such a failure might endanger the whole principle of rationing-which the people have accepted wholeheartedly thus...
Each month U.S. consumers put 130 million sugar-ration stamps into circulation and on the Eastern Seaboard 150 million gasoline coupons. After Nov. 22, the entire nation will use gas coupons, and when OPA's Christmas present of an all-purpose ration book reaches all the nation's people so many extra millions of coupons will be spent each month that local ration boards will no longer be able to cope with the ever-mounting piles of papers. So OPA last week started testing, in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy area of New York, a plan for ration-coupon...
Four thousand gasoline and sugar wholesalers and sugar retailers in the guinea-pig area opened ration-coupon accounts with their banks, began depositing, for pound and gallon credit, the coupons they had received from customers. Tellers counted them as carefully as dollars and cents, made up special ration-banking statements for the depositors and OPA. Bank guards deposited the coupons in the bank's vaults, from which they will be removed and burned by officials at two-week intervals to prevent a huge paper accumulation. To replenish their stocks of merchandise, depositors began to write the first of many...
Since its advent last April the Stars & Stripes has given doughboys in Britain an eight-page weekly ration of U.S. wire service copy and pictures supplemented by sports, domestic news and radio photos. More conservative than its rival weekly, Yank, published in New York City for U.S. Armed Forces everywhere, S & S has nevertheless carried its share of comics, cartoons, together with first-rate coverage of U.S. troops in Britain by some 15 newsmen attached to combat units...