If the ration points are cut, so must the prices be. Slashed points without slashed prices are one of the surest clues to black-market meats

Black market in meats. Maybe she's getting a bargain in points, but the price will slice heavily into her budget

A poster in bold, clear letter, beside the meat counter is the easiest way for a retailer to display his ceiling on meats, which are included among the cost-of-living commodities in the General Maximum Price Regulation.

A customer can use the ration books of the whole family. But the first thing she will want to know when she buys pork chops, pond of butter or a half pound of cheese is--"How many points will it take?"

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Butcher shop of Benjamin Lutz (second from right) at 4:30 p.m. when shifts change at the factories. Although there is no scarcity of meat in Lancaster County yet, the wholesale price has risen as much as from five to eight cents a pound

Calves slaughtered for the black market in meat, under unsanitary conditions

Butchers Will Pay Householders for the Fat and Sell It to Rendering Plants Where It Will Be Processed Into Ammunition for America's Fighting Men. ca. 06-1942

Wasted in the hasty, slovenly black marketer's makeshift abattoir are parts that might make valuable surgical and medicinal supplies for U.S. soldiers: sutures for sewing up incisions, adrenalin and insulin, as well as gelatin for military photographic film

New York, New York. Italian meat stall in the First Avenue market at Tenth Street Creator(s): Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer Date Created/Published: 1943 Jan. Medium:; 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches or smaller.) Rights Adviso