These were glass quarts during and after the War... rationing, you know. When I spoke of the cardboard tops of the milk bottles, I was referring to the two cardboard tops for the glass bottles, which got pushed up an inch or two if it froze.
I think Mom had some kind of rationing exceptions for having a little kid (me). I remember you couldn't get butter and I remember having to mix the little packet of coloring into margarine to give it a faux butter look.
I also remember my father having a special gasoline ration since he worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and he'd get the gas ration in the car, and then use his (more economical) motorcycle to actually get to work. So we had gas to drive around for the car. Not sure nowadays of the ethics of that back then, but at the time one did, I guess, what one had to do.
Terry, 230RN
