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Before Thanksgiving Day, the 20,000,000 U.S. motorists who have thus far escaped gasoline rationing will line up for their books. Like Eastern motorists, who have been on rations since May 15, most of them will get regulation "A" books good for 16 gallons a month. A few, mostly war workers who share rides, will be able to talk their ration boards into "B" or "C" books for a supplementary allowance...
...ration would be OPA had not yet decided, but they announced that the ration would be calculated at two-thirds of usual consumption (instead of three-quarters, as previously announced). For apartment houses and institutions that can change to coal...
...leather. Men who are not manning guns usually finish their work of building, rebuilding, camouflaging and drilling two or three hours before dark, so there is time for a baseball game or a swim (being careful of the sharp coral rocks). Or perhaps a can of beer-the ration is two cans a week in the isolated outposts. Supper may be Spam, canned beans, baked potatoes, coffee with chicory and canned milk, Jello...
...Ration K is the prize package of the Subsistence Research Laboratory of the Chicago Quartermaster Depot. Ten years old, the laboratory now serves as the Army's clearinghouse for food ideas, originating many of them itself. It is staffed by twelve commissioned officers and three civilian technicians...
...Human Guinea Pig Club"-is served the Army's strangest noon mess (every day except Sunday). They may get anything from tomato bread and soybean sausages to eleven-year-old beef. Usually the fare is good, sometimes it is gagging; but good or bad, it is never just ration spinach and to hell with it. Due to these luncheon tests and the field trials a number of changes in Ration K have been made since it was first stowed in a knapsack late last year. Recent innovations: cheese for meat in the supper package, fruit bars for a touch...