RATIONING IN AMERICA
Writing to a friend in Auckland, a resident of Moline, Illinois, United States, remarks that all luxuries interfering with war production in the United States were being taken off the market. New tyres could not be bought without a permit showing that the purchase was necessary and of advantage to the war effort, but there were many second-hand tyres available at reasonable prices. Petrol stocks were plentiful and there was no prospect of rationing at the time of writing, the price being about Is 6d an Imperial gallon for first-grade fuel at the current New Zealand rate of exchange. Sugar had been rationed, each person receiving eight ounces a week, compared with the New' Zealand ration of 12 ounces.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20826, 3 July 1942, Page 6
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122RATIONING IN AMERICA Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20826, 3 July 1942, Page 6
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