Group services bulletin, no. 2

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                              BULLETIN 
                  GROUP SERVICES BRANCH  ISSUED BY 
          
                 DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION 
          
          
         NUMBER 2 
              CONSUMER DIVISION 
         OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION 
          
          
                              April, 1943 
          
          
                          THE MEATS, FATS AND OILS PROGRAM 
          
           Food means freedom! 
           Freedom for the fighting men of the United Nations; men locked in battle against the enemy on 
         battle fronts all over the world. 
           Food means freedom for farmers, factory workers, miners, merchants, lawyers, lumberjacks. bankers, 
         doctors, clerks, carpenters; women and children; Negroes, whites and orientals; Catholics, Jews 
         Protestants. 
           Food is courage; blood and bone and flesh. 
           Food will shorten the war--and win it. 
          
           The rationing of meats, butter and other fats 
         is the largest and most comprehensive rationing 
         program yet undertaken by the Government. It 
         controls the distribution of nearly 22 billion 
         pounds of food stuffs to practically every man, 
         women, and child in the Continental U.S.A. who 
         is not in the armed forces. 
           Your organization can be a force in making 
         this program work effectively. 
          
        Why Ration 
           Food follows the flag. As our armed forces 
         grow and as our flag advances, the demand for 
         food becomes greater and greater. 
           In spite of the almost superhuman efforts of 
         the farmer, the livestock grower and American 
         industry, there is only a certain amount of food. 
         It takes time to produce it. The production of 
         meat, for example, is governed by the laws of 
         nature. It takes more than a year to “build” a 
         good beef steer -- longer than to build a de- 
         s troyer. 
           A growing quantity of foods is needed to give 
         our fighters and our fighting Allies the fight- 
         ing foods they need, which, with the increased 
         civilian demand, leaves less for us at hone. 
           Our boys in the forces need more food as 
         fighters than they did as civilians. 
 
          
 
 
 
 
 
           Moreover, demand for the rationed products 
         has increased at home, mainly because our popu- 
         lation is working harder and longer hours, is 
         earning more money, and has more to spend for 
         food. 
           Imports of the rationed commodities have been 
         cut off by war conditions, but the volume we 
         formerly sold in the export market has been 
         maintained under the Lend-Lease program. 
           To maintain health and efficiency, we must 
         all share-and-share-alike. Rationing is the 
         only way of insuring an equal share. 
           Food rationing is no 
         fun for anybody. War is 
         like that. 
           But let’s look at it 
         this way. 
           Those “little red 
         stamps” are another way 
         of stopping those big 
         black tanks, dropping 
         those zeros, and sending 
         those subs to the bottom. 
           They slow down the 
         thoughtless for the work- 
         ing woman who can’t shop 
         till late. 
           They help to take the 
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        “black” out of the black market. 
           They constantly remind us that our 
        boys will “eat best” even if we eat less, 
          
        Foods Rationed 
           All fresh, frozen, cured and canned beef, 
         veal, pork, lamb, mutton, including all variety 
         meats such as liver, heart, kidney, brain etc., 
         and all sausage. All canned fish, cheeses (ex- 
         cluding perishable cheeses such as cottage 
         cream, bleu, etc.) butter, lard, margarine, 
         shortening, salad and cooking oils. 
          
         Rationing Technique 
           “Point Rationing”, as used for processed 
         foods. 
          
         Stamps Used 
           The Red Stamps in War Ration Book Two 
           Stamps may be used for any of the rationed 
         commodities. The same stamps are used In the 
         purchase of meat, cheese, butter, canned fish, 
         margarine, etc. Neither the letters nor the 
         numerals designate any specific commodity which 
         may be purchased.