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Show I LARD SET ASIDE Forty per cent of the total lard production was ordered set aside for the military by the Food Ad. minstration making it necessary for the OPA to immediately re-turn re-turn lard, shortening, salad and cooking oils to the ration list. The oils and lard were frozen at midnight, Thursday, January 18 and no sale coutd be made by .) ther wholesalers or retailersi until Monday, January 23. This was done to conserve the short supplies on the retailers shelves and to permit dealers to take inventory in-ventory of supplies in an orderly fashion. Points have been set at two points a pound. Butter nd margar ine are not effected by the freeze. |