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...Rationing: On & Off. To speed civilian access to goods and services, Boss Snyder's master plan called for an end to rationing as quickly as possible. The picture: ¶ Immediate lifting of gasoline rationing, but not of fuel oil which is still short. ¶ Continuance of automobile and tire purchase controls-for a short time. ¶ Canned goods off the ration lists at once. There will be more food, but meat rationing will probably continue for months. Shortage of sugar, fats and oils will mean continued rationing. (The Army will cut its food demands about one-fifth, will live...
Underlining the change, OPA this week made a decisive cutback of its own: it halted printing of 187,000,000 new ration books...
Constantly hungry on a daily ration (for the whole group) of one peck of meal from the ship's stores, always cold from exposure, many of them developed scurvy and pneumonia. The Pilgrims, claims Author Willison, blandly ignored the ship's doctor, Giles Heale. For medical advice they depended solely on one of their own members, Deacon Samuel Fuller. Result: almost every day somebody died. When at last the Mayflower sailed back to England, the harvest came in, and a gift of corn from Squanto increased the group ration by another peck of fresh meal. But the seven...
Love in Wartime. In Havana, Ill., the Rev. James L. Dial took pity on a point-short couple he had just married, lent them three pounds of sugar for their wedding cake. In Rochester, N.Y., a ration board heard from an applicant, "I'm getting married, so I need a new pair of work shoes," considerately marked his request "Urgent...
...voters' list was compiled from identity cards. In the spring of 1943, when these cards were called in for the issue of ration books, Churchill was abroad attending a conference. He was given a new ration book, but someone slipped up on sending his name to the election registrar...