Word: rationer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somebody was radically wrong about sugar. Refiners and producers urged OPA and WPB to loosen up. Why ration sugar when warehouses bulged with the stuff...
...thus far OPA stood firm, although conceding that warehouses are full. OPA turned down pleas for sugar allowances beyond ration limits. Behind OPA's stubbornness was fear -fear of shipping losses and of withdrawal of ships from the sugar business for military use. After all, the U.S. imports most (70%) of its sugar, and ships are needed for a second front as well as for imports...
Death Rattle. A be-rationed Sioux City, Iowa citizen put his views in verse to the chairman of his ration board...
...jolted Washington with its bland statement that consumer sugar stocks were "only slightly below normal" and that there was no need for rationing. Up jumped the Agriculture Department: "Sugar for use in the continental U.S. is expected to be the smallest in 20 years." Then, with a so-there flip of its head, the Department added: "Rationing is necessary." OPA-which doled out the 130,000,000 sugar-ration cards-quickly and emphatically agreed...
...fuel, releasing high-grade fuel for the Luftwaffe's planes, milk refineries spill out lubricating oil for the submarine fleets. Farmers grow what they are told to grow, and the soybean (twice the strength of meat at a quarter the price) is the armed forces' basic ration. It is mixed into almost every dish the soldiers eat and, Food suggests, may even be Hitler's vaunted secret weapon...