Thu, Dec 10, 1942: enough gas

"...Daddy is still intending to go down after you on Dec. 18th and will probably be there so you can get started home fairly early as that is the night of the program at Bloomington. 
"We seem to be having enough gas so far but don't know whether or not we will run out toward the end of the period for which the stamps are issued...."

-- Letter from my grandmother, on the farm at Bloomington, Kans., to my father, a college sophomore at Southwestern College, Winfield, Kans., Thursday, December 10, 1942.  On December 1, the government had put in place gasoline rationing, a ban on pleasure driving, and a nationwide 35-mile-an-hour speed limit.  (On rationing, see my earlier post “Thu, May 7, 1942: Ration Book”).