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...chaos. Then, as the filling-station tanks slowly filled again, OPA lifted the ban. Henceforth B and C cards were cut to three gallons a week instead of four, and it would be harder than ever to get these cards at all. But at least gasoline, infinitely more precious now than even Americans had realized, was being sold again...
Papers all over the country demanded Government action to get wheat and rice to the starving. Snapped one Delhi daily: "Profiteers, speculators, hoarders and the rest of the parasites are fattening on the vitals of the masses. The Government has so far done precious little in terms of action to relieve their distress...
...Brazilians from drought-stricken areas were seeking a new world last week. Like the old pioneers of North America, they were the first of a great army marching westward to open an untouched land. The treasure they were seeking was one of World War II's most precious-rubber...
Said Minister Capanema in honeyed Portuguese: "The precious works you have done are an invitation to ... the choice between the way of violence and the way of love." Cultivated Artist Biddle then thanked the Minister in Portuguese...
...market deals. But OPA is still catching up with the bootleg tire gangs that flourished in the days when there were still some to bootleg. In contrast, coffee is still too newly rationed for the gangs to have caught up with it, may well be too scarce (and too precious to the consumers who have all the ration cou pons) ever to become a serious problem...