The Quarterly Grain Report

February 22, 1944
President Franklin Roosevelt, in an effort to ration the nation's consumption of delicious, salty soup-crackers, introduces to congress the Cracker Perforation Act, requiring that all crackers be produced with a minimum of 3.5 pinholes per square inch of cracker. Congress passes the bill within an hour, and US forces reach the summit of the heavily defended Mt. Sarabachi on the island of Iwo Jima the following day. President Roosevelt said of the Act: "I believe I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we as a nation are willing to sacrifice the solidarity of our delicious soup-crackers to bring about victory, so help us God."