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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1918
Page
11
Britain adopts a rationing plan with coupons to ensure fair food distribution. Per person weekly allowances include meat 20 ounces sugar half pound butter 5 ounces and unrationed flour with restaurant bread rations. Local food boards issue coupon books. dealers detach leaves matching purchases. Rationing parallels price controls but does not itself set prices.
Democratic leaders in Portland predict victory in Maine's September 9 gubernatorial race and a U S Senate seat. They contrast with Republican fears of national storms if GOP turnout rises, while highlighting state issues on water power and wild lands.
Washington dispatch reports the government acquired a million barrels of flour at $1 a barrel, undoing millers profits from by products. The piece notes wartime regulation, advertising spending, and price controls abroad and in the United States, plus effects on wheat and bread prices.
Interviews with the ministry of food labor leaders retailers and consumers show improved English food supply under rationing. Before rationing busy people faced long queues and scarce meat sugar butter and flour while under rationing meat sugar and other staples are readily available with no queues and bacon ham and other cuts widely sold without coupons.
Washington officials planned to revoke bakers licenses but an appeal led to an inquiry about bread cost. The investigation showed that higher substitute costs raised bread price by seven percent, and the baker retained his license.
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