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The Problem of Changing Food Habits Report of the Committee on Food Habits 1941-1943 (1943) / Chapter Skim
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Rationing and Morale, November 21, 1942
Pages 160-161

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From page 160...
... It has been well accepted, probably partly due to the Government's efforts to interpret the various regulations and the encroachrr~ents on private life and habits, to the educational efforts of cooperating civic organizations and public authorities, and to the fact that the chairman of the Board in each community, upon whom rests much of the responsibility for the actual ' working of the system, is a member of that community. There is never an advance announcement of rationing, and since in many cases it has been introduced before act'ual shortage forced it, there has been surprisingly little hoarding.
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From page 161...
... A device to avoid the black market is the occasional issuance of an extra allotment of a commodity for which other coupons may be exchanged and spent. The ensuing discussion brought out the importance of recognizing three main problems in regard to rationing: that ' steps must be taken to insure that the food permitted by the ration is available, that there must be effective demand, i.e., sufficient purchasing power on the part of all members of ..
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