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Show HERE ARE THE FACTS What are the facts about the food supply? Was the OPA arbitrary ar-bitrary and despotic when it restored res-tored a long list of foods to the rationing December 26, increased the valev of others, and cancelled the list of ration stamps in t:ie hands of citizens. OPA Admins-trator Admins-trator Chester Bowles answers these questions. Present indications estimate less meat, less butter and less sugar and processed foods or civilians in the first quarter of 1945 than in any three months of the war. An end of the war against Ger-many Ger-many im 1945 will alter these shortages significantly. Continuing his analysis, Mr. Bowles stated that the outlook for the various foods: An October survey revealed that consumers had ration stamps accumulations equal to nearly three months supply of food. Had housewives been warned of the approaching change in rationing I policies a run on food stores similar sim-ilar to arun on banks in panic times would undoubtedly have been parcipitated. Twelve months supplies would have been cut to nine months supply by hoarders. The OPA had to make the hard choice, and protect a vital war reserve, the nation's food supply. |