Show Shoe Sales In the year and a half since shoe rationing began American women have lave failed to keep within their allotments U U. U S. S department of comm com- com m figures reveal In 1943 when the average civilian allotment was two pairs per year American women women women wom wom- en purchased about three and one- one half pairs each and in 1942 four pairs each Men and boys boy have done much better in their shoe ration Consumption of civilian mens men's sho shoes s d declined from a little littleover littleover littleover over two pairs in 1941 to fewer than two pairs in 1943 |