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...until cold weather may find themselves worse off than oil furnace owners because then army ordnance shipments will be at a peak. Of 1,400,000 Eastern homes with oil furnaces, 700,000 can be converted easily to coal, but only 40,000 have been changed so far. The ration plan proposes that home owners who can convert furnaces but fail to do so shall get no extra ration...
Sometime between October 1 and "after elections" U.S. civilians will receive their first big, comprehensive ration books. Chief reason for the delay is exact decision as to their form, and the technical difficulties the Government Printing office will have in producing 200 million copies (enough to provide for losses and to keep local ration boards from running short) and more than that number of application forms...
Like many other people who feel as I do ... we are saving our tin cans, our collapsible metal tubes, our rubber, our waste paper, our scrap metal. . . . We're doing easily with less sugar than our ration card will buy. . . . We're not hoarding anything...
Greek families are burying their dead secretly in order to use their ration cards. Bulgars, to whom Adolf Hitler threw Macedonia and Thrace, immediately slaughtered 10,000 Greeks, drove 70,000 more from their homes. Money cannot help; dead men have been picked up clutching large sums in their fists. The Italians cover the dead with cloth and carry them away; the Germans kick the dead in the gutter. Greece has many Lidices, towns razed and marked only by a sign printed on a swastika flag...
Sales of the $1,000,000,000-a-year soft drink business are not far from last year's all-time record, despite sugar rationing and the bottlecap shortage. Atop huge military shipments (all made from unrationed sugar), civilian sales are as big as the 80% sugar ration allows. To stretch sugar supplies, bottlers are using less cane sugar per drink, more dextrose and sorghum...