Rationing in the United Kingdom meat, tea, jam, biscuits, breakfast cereals, cheese, eggs, lard, milk, and canned and dried fruit. In June 1942 the Combined Food Board was set up by Great Britain and the United States to coordinate the world supply of food to the Allies, with special attention to flows from the U.S. and Canada to Britain. Almost all foods apart from vegetables and bread were rationed by August 1942. Strict rationing inevitably created a black market. Almost all controlled items were rationed by weight but meat was rationed by price. Fresh vegetables and fruit were not rationed but supplies were limited. Some
New Orleans Item-Tribune The paper, which is preserved by the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Library of Congress from its June 11, 1902, issue through its last, September 14, 1958, was published daily until dropping the Saturday edition beginning December 17, 1950. In 1958, the "Item-Tribune" merged with the "Daily States" (founded in 1880) to form the New Orleans "Daily States-Item". In 1962, publisher and businessman Samuel I. Newhouse bought the morning "Times-Picayune" as well as the afternoon "States-Item", which continued to be published separately until they were merged and combined in 1980. New Orleans Item-Tribune The New Orleans Item-Tribune, sometimes