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With residents of other institutions in and around Boston required to hand in their ration book number 2, no final decision has yet been made by the OPA as to whether Harvard will be required to do the same...
...special office has been set up in Boylston Hall for students in residence at the University to obtain their number two ration books, now being issued all over the country...
...upper class even wealthier than before the civil war, particularly conspicuous in miserable Spain. While the poor queued up for their daily ration of uneatable bread, "the wealthy continued their pleasant custom of stopping off on their way home from Mass to consume some of the admirable Spanish éclairs or mille-feuilles...
...Best new guess on the butter ration, due about May, was 13 lb. a year (¼ lb. a week), compared with normal peacetime consumption...
Nobody knew what the final outcome of the industrial shortage would be; statistics were sadly lacking. OPA last week said there was plenty of oil to cover all ration coupons outstanding, then admitted it still did not know how many gallons worth of coupons it had issued...