BUTTER
SALES BANNED!
No Warning
from OPA
WASHINGTON,
D.C.—The Office of Price Administration (OPA) yesterday announced without
warning that the retail sale of butter, margarine, lard, and other edible fats
and oils will be banned for one week
beginning at 12:01 this morning. The ban is in effect until 12:01 March 29,
when these items will be regulated by rationing, as will meats, cheese, and
canned fish. The OPA said the ban was needed because there is insufficient food
stocks “…to support heavy public buying during the one week remaining before
rationing.” The ban was announced at 3 p.m. Eastern War Time yesterday to
balance the risk of a “short run” on the few stores open on Sunday and the need
to inform the more than six hundred thousand stores nationwide of the ban by
the time it went into effect today. Restaurants are not affected by the ban.
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