U.S. At War: Bad News for Grasshoppers

With the first chill winds of fall: > OPAdministrator Leon Henderson's statisticians pored over 43 years of Weather Bureau figures. They came up with an allegedly scientific map zoning 30 States according to climate for fuel-oil rationing.

> How big the oil ration would be OPA had not yet decided, but they announced that the ration would be calculated at two-thirds of usual consumption (instead of three-quarters, as previously announced). For apartment houses and institutions that can change to coal but do not: no oil.

> Deputy Petroleum Coordinator Ralph Davies telegraphed an...

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