Wartime Ration Notes and Farm Report Summary
Wartime ration details cover gasoline stamps coffee and fuel allocations, meat and processed foods, and home canning rules across zones. Marvin Jones reports farmers on track with field crops and livestock goals. pork, corn and potato acreages vary against 1943 targets. Also covered are life insurance deadlines, clothes rationing plan elements, dairy and bean allocations, eggs, canned goods, money remittance by radio, and corn and cotton policy changes.
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Shottase Aia
Lucas
Marvin Jones
Jones
Rubber plan drives war alcohol quotas for rubber program
The 1943 distilling industry quota allocates a large portion of 240 million gallons of war alcohol to the synthetic rubber program. With crude rubber sources controlled by the Axis, the synthetic rubber effort is crucial to U S military superiority.
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Donald M. Nelson
Gamnetas
America
Maryland
OPA Sets Rollback and Food Price Controls
The OPA announced a July 20 rollback of 25 percent on lettuce and 50 percent on cabbage to curb rising fresh fruit and vegetable costs. It aims to reduce retail prices, while continuing community-wide price settings as a step to lower living costs.
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OPA
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Wilfetra Oline
Desiecr
Actwe Petroleum
Davies
War Food Administration
WEA
Alaska
Hawaii
Panama Canal Zone
Puerto Rico
Orno
Sane Tveality
Waar Production Board
Acien
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
The
Association of Maryland Distillers & Allied Industries
Mercantile Prust Bldg
Baltimore, Md
Lewepa Perralalye
Spencer
June Walling
Ered Corsetiere Denton, Md
Mobi
Lizes
the Nation
Claude R. Wickard
Secretary of Agriculture
Employment Office
Phillips Packing
Cambridge
Denton, Maryland
Willoughby, Maryland
Church Creek
Eldorado, Maryland
Vienna, Maryland
Williston
Newbridge
Oak Grove
Delaware
Cambridge, Maryland
Newark, Delaware
Townsend, Delaware
Laurel, Delaware
Cordova, Maryland
Phillips
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