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...existence of this bakery is testimony to a standing principle of the University food system--to prepare as much of the food as possible on the premises. Except for obviously specialized foods the only commodity which is not prepared by the food system is ice cream, which is bought outside. Already the government edict on this delicacy has made itself felt in the dining halls...
...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...
...Whipped Cream. U.S. citizens will get no more sundaes, pies or cakes topped with blobs of whipped cream. To save a billion quarts of milk needed more for butter, cheese and export in dried forms, WPB ordered all sales of heavy cream stopped last week...
...billion and the military and Lend-Lease the rest. Workers have more money to spend for milk, want also to piece out coffee shortages with milk, meat shortages with milk products. So rationing is in the works for early 1943, with the least essential uses cut hardest: ice cream, whipping cream, fancy cheese...
Squeeze All Around. Some big milk distributors-notably in New York and Duluth-Superior-were squeezed too when OPA froze fluid milk and cream prices last May at abnormally low March levels. Under the price law, OPA could not then freeze butter prices, which jumped upward and tried to drag milk prices along. But for the distributors, the Government provided subsidies of $1 million a month -temporary hush money until OPA and the Agriculture Department could decide on the least evil of three: 1) raise milk a cent a quart; 2) lower the average price to farmers; 3) continue paying...