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Since September Britons' weekly price-fixed beef, mutton and pork ration had fallen from two shillings twopence (43?) to one-and-ten (37?), then one-and-six (30?), then one-and-twopence (23?), and finally, last month to one shilling (20?) -enough to buy about a pound of stewing meat. More immediately serious is a shortage of certain minor essentials such as alloy metals, which meant that the British Army was going to have to be satisfied with brittler steel in its tanks...
Circulation. Reader losses have been slight. The Times and Daily Telegraph ration circulation by insisting that readers register in advance with local newsstands, thereby eliminating "returns...
...Home & Abroad. Both Stalin and Hitler use food to destroy internal opposition, reward accomplishment, punish failure, establish the class distinctions of their "new orders." In Germany the "warrior caste" of the armed forces gets the fattest ration cards, skilled and essential workmen the next. Down at the bottom come prisoners, the insane, the Jews. Ration cards giving the owner right to more food are used to give workmen incentives to seek promotion, to increase their output. Supplies are suddenly cut down (regardless of the amount stored) to scare the population into believing the situation serious, or extra rations are suddenly...
...recent surveys show that the food situation in the occupied democracies is far worse than the British statement would seem to indicate. The Belgian ration is already down to 960 calories or less than half necessary to maintain life. Supplies to maintain even that will be exhausted this month. Reports show many children already so weak that they cannot attend school...
Dietitians agree that it takes 3,000 calories a day to feed a 150-lb. man adequately, 4,000 if he is a laborer. The victuals allowed on the ration card provided 950 calories. Nutrition experts grimly watched France lose its health, forecast increases of tuberculosis and influenza...