Sugar Stories
NEW ZEALANDERS can tell amusing stories about what happened when they first registered for sugar rations. So can Americans. Here are some of them: In Milwaukee, Fobes Ormsby Henderveld de Kaul — a cow called Mooie for short — received an allotment of one pound of sugar a day under the "Illness of Consumer " clause, because’ her owner, Farmer Harry Goebel, had a veterinary’s certificate prescribing one pound of brown sugar daily, the only cure for Mooie’s temporary insanity. A Minneapolis woman brought her neighbour to testify that she had no sugar. "She knows," she explained, " because I always bortow from her." A father in Secaucus, N.J., who had just registered for his family, rushed back to the ration board for an extra book- his wife had had another child while he was registering. Judy, aged 2, and Steve, aged 1, children of the Harold Colverts _of Oklahoma City, ate the family’s ration coupons. ao tones
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 162, 31 July 1942, Page 5
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156Sugar Stories New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 162, 31 July 1942, Page 5
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