Up & Down

Developments on the food front last week meant that the U.S. people will get:

> Less beef (points on all cuts were raised; round steak now takes 13 points a pound).

> Slightly less mutton, lamb and veal (points were raised). But the War Food Administration announced a greater allotment of lamb and mutton for civilians.

> More black-market meat (as packers refused to buy cattle at the cattlemen's price, black-market dealers snapped it up; the rise in beef points broadened their retail market).

> Less canned tomatoes, corn and peas (No. 2 cans are up two points).

> Less canned fish (points are raised 50% to encourage eating of fresh fish).

> More pork (packers were deluged with hogs).

> More coffee (stocks on hand rose to 3,000,000 bags, tripling the supply five months ago; the Pan-American Coffee Bureau recommended cutting the ration period for one stamp from three to two weeks, predicted it would soon be slashed to a week).

> More sugar (sugar imports rose as German submarines took a licking; Franklin Roosevelt suggested that soon sugar and coffee need no longer be rationed).

In Washington, smooth-working Marvin Jones went through his first week as Food Administrator without saying a public word, quietly tried to get a grip on himself and the tangled food problem.

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