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With an average of 33 percent favoring blanket adoption of the proposals, the House votes ran parallel to each other, while a 50 percent all-yes in the Union, where one glass of milk is the regular portion, emphasized student concern with that item elsewhere...
...different ballot at the Medical School brought out a black and white result, with 46 percent all for the plan and 33 percent all against. Only five percent voted a straight "no" in the Houses and Union...
...asked to vote yes or no, depending on willingness to cooperate on any or all of the six measures. Included for consideration are the following proposals: elimination or breads for dinner; a milk limit of one glass per meal; elimination of cakes or cookies with ice cream; 15 percent curtailments in meat and fish supplies; removal of dessert from noon meal; elimination of all wheat cereals...
During the pre-OPA period of August 1939 to May 1943, average consumers' prices rose 31 percent. Since OPA and hold-the-line, they have risen only another 3.4 percent. With price ceilings on machinery and readily produced consumers' items already lifted and with production of civilian goods at an all-time high, 12 more months of price control would assure an orderly distribution of new goods at existing prices. The twin battles of production and inflation are nearly won, yet manufacturers and farmers, in their greed, are willing to scrap national safety and welfare in a frantic last minute...