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Show New Sugar Ration Stamp Becomes Valid Spar; strmp 49 In th? family ration ra-tion books became valid for live pounds of sugar on May 1. 1946 and , will remain good until August 31. Spare stamp No. 9 remains valid for five pounds of canning sugar until October 31. Bus d on the April 23. 1948 report re-port of the combined food board an agency representing the Unit A tat,s. Gr at Britlan and Canada, the o-'flce of price administration expec's thit the pns nt rat'.on of flv. pounds of fugar for ftwh four can be maintained. On this basis, the next spare stamp for regular consumer purchases pur-chases of sugar will be validated S ptember 1, 1946. The combined food board in allocate? al-locate? the bulk of th? world's .exportable supplies of food, estlmat" 'd the total 1946 supply of sugar available for consumption to b"" 11,809,000 short tons as compared wl'h 12,270,000 tons for last year. Of the total available world supply, tr, United Stat s has b en allocated allocat-ed 5,711,000 tons, more than SO per cent. |