U.S. At War: Those Who Can, Should

About 21,200,000 U.S. women are busy as squirrels this year trying to put up the crops of vegetables and fruit with half as much sugar as they would have used last year. To get any sugar at all for canning, each had to look her local ration board in the eye, cross her heart and tell how many quarts of fruit she canned last year, how many quarts remain on her pantry shelves, how many quarts she expects to put up this year, the number of people in her family. The ration board...

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