Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week 131,669,275 U.S. inhabitants were entitled to: 1) War Ration Book Number 1; 2) to one pound of sugar apiece to last them two weeks. Exception: members of the armed forces and persons confined to public and private institutions. Special rules...
...local rationing board has not as yet solved the problem of those students who take 12 meals only in the Dining Halls and the remainder at their homes or some student eating organization. These persons will receive sugar from their family or organization allotment at the present time...
Students who forgot to register during the last four days must apply to the local rationing board for books. Since the board will not receive the proper forms for some time these men can not receive books for at least two weeks. However, Durant said sugar would not be witheld from them...
Today is the final day for all students 18 and over to register for sugar rationing book number one. Memorial Hall will be open to registrants from 9 o'clock in the morning to 9 o'clock at night...
Present plans envisage inflation control largely through manipulation of supply. The techniques--priorities, rationing, and price fixing--have worked and will continue to work in individual cases like rubber, gas, and sugar, but the economists from Hansen to Keynes are united in believing this one-sided attack inadequate to control, an entire price structure. Temptations to the bootleg "black market" are too severe; enforcement difficulties are overwhelming. Henderson himself has publicly recognized price control to be an interim measure, a temporary substitute for taxes that hurt...