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Show ROUND-UP ... Nearly 40 per cent of all vegetables vege-tables grown for fresh consumption consump-tion in the United States last year came from victory gardens, the War Food Administration reported . . . WFA says that 52,000 Mexican Nationals will be needed to help relieve farm labor shortage in the United States this year. Approximately Approxi-mately 14,000 already are in this Country . . . Living costs for city families decreased two-tenths of one per cent between mid-December and mid-January, the Secretary Secre-tary of Labor reports. Although services continued to increase in cost, both food and clothing cost declined . . . OPA has granted regional re-gional administrators authority to recommend that slaughterers who wilfully violate any OPA meat regulation reg-ulation be deprived in whole or in part of their subsidy payments . . . OPA suggests that retailers keep a reserve of one-point green and brown stamps on hand during the first week or two ration tokens are used, in case they have underestimated underes-timated their token needs. OPA has ordered a reserve of 200 million milli-on tokens to be ready not later than AprU 7 ... A food producer who wishes to get electric power extension for water to irrigate as much as five acres of land may apply to his County Agricultural Conservation Committee, WPB has announced . . . WPB has authorized the manufacture of approximately half a million enameled cold pack canners with a jac' capacity of seven sev-en one-quarts, nine one-pints, or four half-gallons, to be available for this canning season . . . Rye is not a desirabe alcohol-producing grain, and use of large quantities of rye for this purpose is not likely like-ly at present, WPB says . . . Because Be-cause more batteries are needed for walkie-talkies, bazookas, signal sig-nal lights, and other equipment, WPB says there is little chance for an increased supply for civilians this year . . . WPB will permit limited lim-ited production of electric flat irons for civilian use, but few of the new irons are expected in retail re-tail stores before mid-year . . . More than 3,000 trucks for civilian use Almost exactly the number planned for were produced in January according to WPB . . . WPB has set the 1944 quotas for new glass containers for wines and distilled spirits at 100 per cent of the number used in 1943 and for non-alcoholic beverages at 80 percent per-cent of the number accepted by the packer for this use in 1941 . . . Orange shellac having an OPA ceiling price of 45.1 cents per pound or higher is now available for home use in finishing floors and furniture and for manufacturing manufactur-ing and repairing furniture. In using soybeans as a "stretcher" "stretch-er" in meat loaves, patties or croquettes, cro-quettes, Westinghouse home economists econ-omists mash the cooked soybeans by running them through a meat grinder or mashing them with an old-fashioned potato masher. Putting Put-ting them through a sieve is tedious tedi-ous and not recommended. |