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...chalky, dingy schoolhouses last week trudged 35 million bewildered U.S. householders to stand in impatient lines for their second ration books, to get a lesson in wartime living and the ways of Washington...
...citizens admitted having more than the permitted five packages of 250-odd point-rationed frozen, canned and dried foods. Many of the rest overlooked what every grocer knew: that the previous month's buying spree had loaded many a cupboard full up. Only one person in a thousand could remember how much coffee he had three months earlier or think of any reason at all why OPA now should hand out a maddening questionnaire with a naive entry: "Pounds of coffee owned on November 28, 1942, minus 1 pound for each person included in this Declaration whose...
...Evanston, 111. dowager demanded 17 ration books for her 17 cats. A family of three Philadelphia Main Liners declared an excess of 4,500 cans-enough to cost them 108 eight-point coupons a year for 41 years...
...Copped. In Chicago, Patrolman Lynn Scott, author of a manual on the proper behavior of policemen, was arrested for attempting to sell stolen ration books...
Students taking more than seven meals a week in the College dining halls will be required to turn their War Ration Book No. 2 in to the various dining halls, the regional OPA office in Boston announced yesterday...