Rationing Loopholes Highlight Wartime Supply Gaps
Associated Press report by Ovid A. Martin analyzes wartime rationing flaws. Government controls aim to balance production and distribution but uneven enforcement causes shortages. Local plants shift supplies to feeding foreign demand and face consumer backlash as smaller markets suffer.
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Ovid A. Martin
Associated Press
Giese
Maldistribution of meat and sugar amid wartime rationing debates
Wartime policy analyses note misdistribution of meat products as packaging, transport, and retail practices skew supply. Shortages of salt pork in the South and Lend-Lease redirections affect consumer access, while sugar rationing shifts reflect interagency disputes between OPA and WEA.
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Russia
Corporal With Large Family Seeks Army Pay Rise
Columbus Nebraska resident Corporal Kinzer, father of sixteen, receives about 500 dollars monthly in base pay plus allowances near Captain rank. The Omaha payroll shows 22 dollars deducted for the first child, with 28 added for Mrs. Winter, and 130 and 30 for other dependents. Kinzer and his wife had two children attend school in Columbus and once kept a child in each grade. He enlisted after discharge from France in the last war and has served since, initially with Union Pacific before entering the Army at Fort Omaha.
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Columbus
Neb
Mia Minzk
Omaha
INS
Leo Kinzer
Lat Fort
Kinder
Army
Winter
Abe Bebe
Ing bin
Kinzer
Kinter
France
Union Pacific Railroad
Peant
Fort Omaha
Rosaries Made For Servicemen by Mrs. Mary Cass
While hospitalized in Boston Mrs. Mary Cass has created 383 rosaries for servicemen. She began crafting them during her illness and continued while recovering, donating the total to aid military personnel.
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Boston
Mary Cassay
Jewish Assassins of Lord Moyne Hanged in Cairo
The report states two young Jewish nationalists, Hariged and Sourk, were hanged in Cairo yesterday for the assassination plot against Lord Moyne the British resident commissioner in the Middle East. The lengthy trial featured defense challenges and many petitions.
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Lord Moyne Hariged
Cairo
Unclear Readings Mention Moyne Amid Independence Debate
Fragmentary OCR notes reference Lord Moyne and independence themes, but lack coherent events or context to identify a specific news item or outcome. The text remains incomprehensible and does not establish a concrete report.
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