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Leon Henderson last week asked for 90.000 new Federal employes (and $210,000,000) to enforce his price-control and rationing program, That is about 70% as many men as there are in all the State and local police and detective forces in the country; it is more than 20 times the peak staff (in bootleg years) of Federal prohibition agents; and it amounts to one employe for every 19 retail outlets in the U.S. But-as OPA was quick to point out -it is only one-third more than the 60,000 Britain has hired to price-control...
...home front which collapsed in 1918 under food and spiritual deficiencies. It was this same front that Göring addressed last week, for 80 minutes. He blamed the weather ("Nature really has treated us very unkindly") for crop shortages and the need for a new "temporary reduction" in ration cards. A second broadcast of Göring's speech was suddenly canceled. The text of it was released, then halted in transmission to neutral countries...
When their relatives die, the Greeks no longer bury them in cemeteries. The cemeteries are full now. Instead the bodies are placed unmarked in garden plots. By avoiding mortuary declarations, the living can keep and use the dead's ration cards...
Tuberculosis brought on by undernourishment is now rampant in Greece. Meat, fish, potatoes and cheese are unobtainable. The present bread ration is five ounces per week...
...hall service is a prospicient and liberal decision. Remembering that Harvard's primary aim is to make its students perfect physical specimens, the University has taken this further step to insure their good health. By closing the dining halls the University also will save that fraction of their sugar ration hitherto allotted to the undergraduates. The principal motive, however, is not patriotic, but rather the fulfillment of the all-out Make-the-Students-Healthy program. In order to forestall the pending epidemic of ptomaine poisoning, the officials at Lehman Hall have ordered that the remaining supply of chicken pies, family...