One Lump, Please

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The U.S. had been warned, and now, here it came. The Office of Price Administration announced the first wartime rationing. During the week of April 27 no sugar will be sold at all. After that, sugar will be sold only upon presentation of coupons from sugar-rationing books.

One member of every household must go to the nearest local elementary school on May 4, 5, 6 or 7,* register name & address, height, weight, color of eyes and hair, number and relationship of others in the household, the amount of sugar at home (which will be deducted from their quotas). Some 1,500,000 teachers will take the depositions, issue a sugar book for each individual in the family. A book will be good for 56 weeks' supply. Each person in the U.S. each week will get one-half a pound of sugar—perhaps three-fourths of a pound (OPA is undecided). Last year 7,900,000 tons of sugar were consumed or stored away in the U.S. This year only some 5,600,000 tons will be available. Reason: no imports from the Philippines, possible curtailment of imports from Hawaii.