Excerpt from Report of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board: January 1, 1944 to December 31, 1944

Because of the Shortage of butter the validity of one coupon was postponed in March, 1944. However, with production still lagging in the peak period (the summer) it was not feasible to continue the full 8 ounce ration and it was found necessary to reduce the ration for the last seven months of the year by post poming the validity of one coupon every eight weeks, bringing the ration to about 7 ounces a week. In December, it was announced that one coupon would be postponed every four weeks during the first part of 1945, making an overall ration of about 6 ounces per week.

The sugar supply Situation remained tight throughout the year, but no change was made either in the half pound ration allowed to ration book holders or in allocations to industrial users. In De cember, 1944, it was announced that for the first quarter of 1945 industrial users (with some exceptions) and restaurants, etc., would be cut from 80 per cent to 70 per cent of their 1941 usage. The ration to consumers will also be reduced during 1945 by making two coupons come due each calendar month instead of every four weeks. The 1944 canning sugar ration was very much Simplified. Instead of the 1943 Scheme by which householders made special application to their local ration boards, every ration book holder was given the right to buy 10 pounds of sugar for canning with specially desig nafed coupons, five of which became valid on May 25 and the other five on July 6. This scheme was much more satisfactory than the method used in 1943, and virtu ally every household used all its coupons for sugar; the option of exchanging them for preserves coupons was exercised only by a trifling number. The same amount of canning sugar will be provided in 1945 as in 1944, but, instead of using special Coupons, additional preserves coupons will become valid during the various home canning seasons. At a value of one-half pound per coupon these will provide a total of 10 pounds of home canning sugar per ration book holder, with the alterna tive of using the coupons to buy preserves.

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