NO COFFEE
SALES THIS WEEK
Move
Precipitates Start of Rationing
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Price Administration
(OPA) has frozen the sale of coffee this week. The freeze began at midnight
Saturday. This move is intended to provide retailers with time to prepare for
the start of coffee rationing, which begins on Sunday, November 29. Beginning
then, the allotment will be one pound of coffee per five weeks, which should
provide about one good cup of coffee a day. It will cost one stamp from the
sugar rationing book, War Ration Book No. 1, to purchase one pound of coffee.
Coffee will be joining sugar on the list of rationed commodities, and it is
predicted butter and cheese will soon join the list as well. Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard said preparations for rationing of butter and cheese will be
completed “…in a matter of days.”
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