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...motorists in 17 States along the Atlantic Seaboard will also receive ration books. Harold Ickes' gasoline shortage, on-again-off-again all last summer, is now a flat fact...
...first scare headlines predicted 2½-5 gallons a week. At week's end motorists could breathe a little easier: their ration would probably be 25-30 gallons a month...
...citizens cannot legally buy a pound of sugar this week anywhere. Next week they will line up at their schoolhouses for rationing books, and on May 5 a new U.S. era will begin. For the first time, in the land of plenty, a common foodstuff will be doled out on ration coupons: one-half pound a week of sugar for each citizen until the end of June, an undetermined amount after that...
...civilian had now run smack against the facts of war. With ration books in pockets and purses, the citizenry would soon know that World War II was too vast and too desperate for 1918's skimpy, voluntary, gasless Sunday belt-tightening. This looked like a real...
...Memorial Hall each person will receive War Ration Book Number One, containing 28 ration stamps. Each stamp allows the holder to purchase a pound of sugar every two weeks. The stamps are issued free during registration and must be surrendered when sugar is purchased. No store can sell sugar unless it receives a stamp when the purchase is made...