Word: rationer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the U.S. people had asked themselves great questions every week. Where is the Fleet? they had asked, not long after Pearl Harbor. How about the second front? they had asked all last summer. Now they worried about more personal matters: drafting fathers and drafting farmers, about ration points, coupons, regulations. Now they wondered why the Americans were not moving faster in Tunisia; once they had known very well the U.S. had, in effect, no Army at all, and Tunisia was a far-off name on an unknown map. The people had even got used to the scrappy little casualty...
This week the 400,000 grocery stores of the U.S. will be well on their way through a violent financial transition. To all grocers, for the duration, ration points will be a lot more important than dollars & cents...
Housewife to Wholesaler. As expounded by OPA, point rationing sounds easy: 1) The Government issues ration books and stamps to the public, and assigns specific point values to foods. 2) The housewife turns the stamps over to the grocer in exchange for goods, and the grocer, in order to replenish his stocks, sends the stamps along to the wholesaler. 3) The wholesaler turns these coupons over to his bank (where they are eventually destroyed) and gives him credit for the number of points they represent. 4) With this credit the wholesaler draws a check in favor of the canner...
...practice the new currency runs into dizzying complications. To get the system going, OPA had to print 150,000,000 ration books. The Government Printing Office enlisted the help of 19 printing companies. The job involved printing more stamps (30 billion-all made counterfeit-proof) than all the postage stamps issued by the U.S. in the past twelve years...
...cigar box with four compartments to sort out its stamps. In Atlanta another small grocer has his children work nights, and devotes all of Sunday to the job. In Philadelphia recently OPA failed to provide enough of the gummed sheets on which grocers are supposed to stick their ration coupons before turning them in to the wholesaler. As a result, salesmen of wholesaling houses came in with their pockets stuffed with ration coupons, dumped them into bushel baskets. The baskets were presented to the bank for counting; the bank turned the mess back...