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Actually, Britons have precious little even to lick this spring, but they are not grumbling because they know that Food Minister Lord Woolton is doing about everything possible with the supplies available. Not only is the meat ration down to 25? per week per person, but 3? of it must be taken in corned beef, thus lessening the possibilities for stews from weekly roasts. Offals (liver, brains, kidneys, etc.) are still unrationed, but most of the supplies have been sent to the canning companies. Rarely now can British families sit down to a dinner of their beloved steak & kidney...
...ration is three a month. Baked spaghetti and macaroni dishes are almost impossible to make, because farinaceous foods are either unobtainable or rationed to near zero. Soho shops still sell ravioli occasionally, but it is filled only with spinach. Most people have forgotten the taste of cheese or wish they could forget it. All sausage is partly packed with bread crumbs. More than a quarter of a pound of sugar might be allotted each person weekly if so much were not being sent...
...Tobacco ration is ten cigarets per one to three days according to rank...
...price rises cease and unusable purchasing power begins piling up-as it will, unless drastically reduced by taxes and more or less forced savings-will it be practical to ration all the millions of kinds of goods which the U.S. buys...
...Manhattan go-getter prettied his showroom with bunting and spring flowers, slapped a huge sign in his window: "Immediate Deliveries-BRAND NEW 1942 Hudsons." Cadillac and Chrysler dealers did likewise. And, like a lawyer with a client, many a dealer will help a customer fight it out with the ration board...