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...best the system is working on a week to week basis, since a commodity available in quantity one week is priceless the next. Meat and butter have been the latest victims of war shortages. Recently a steward planned to have roast beef for a House dinner. The order was placed and the menu printed, when the dealer announced that he could only procure lamb. Even Boston's great staple, seafood, is becoming scarce as the war intrudes upon the activities of offshore fishermen...
Deftly, without the aid of a theodolite, an OPA demonstrator shows wholesale butchers how to trim a full loin from a beef. Geometrically precise, anatomically specific was OPA's Maximum Price Regulation No. 169: "After the severance of the round from the hindquarter, the flank shall be severed from the full loin by a cut starting at the heavy end of the full loin at the ventral point of severance of the round from the hindquarter and continuing in a straight line to a fixed point on the inside of the 13th rib determined by measuring off ten inches...
...Philadelphia stores had had next to no beef or veal in a fortnight. Food dealers preferred to mention items in ample supply: cereals, dried beans & peas, fats, turkeys. Grocery chains were rationing canned goods against hoarding...
...York, beef stocks were 35% of normal, may be exhausted by year's end. Beef for bologna, a big item in New York, was 20% of normal; pork, 50%; lamb, 40%. Butter sales were restricted, sometimes to a quarter-pound per customer. Canned fruits and vegetables generally were limited to two cans per customer. Canned milk was almost impossible to get, but Mayor LaGuardia announced that arrangements were made to honor physicians' prescriptions ordering milk for babies and whipped cream for the ailing...
...greatest problem in the dining halls is that of obtaining choice food. This ranks above expense at the moment. Meat, especially, is the steward's burden. He must accept the cuts that are alloted him and be thankful for small favors. Last week, roast beef, most precious of edibles in the steward's eyes, was scheduled for all House Dinners. Yet, nowhere in Boston could this rarity be found in quantity. Last week, braised beef was served at the House Dinners. Equally elusive to the desperate steward, such commodities as perishable vegetables, shortening, cheese, canned goods, to say nothing...