Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rationing book will be issued unless the applicant states that the family has no more than 2 Ib. of sugar on hand for each member (penalty for lying: up to ten years' imprisonment or a $10,000 fine). To prevent profiteering, Price Boss Leon Henderson advised housewives to protest loudly if prices go much above 6? a Ib., threatened a retail-price ceiling if such protests are ignored...
...would not cover the deficit, the student body would be willing to cut down on some of its table luxuries. But when the prices charged for extras and substitutions are so high that they make prohibitive even the purchase of such things as milk, then the students will naturally protest. At the present rates only one extra glass of milk per meal would cost $1.05 per week. The effect is for the students not to buy the milk. Such a system operates in a prohibitive manner...
...opinion was consulted through the Student Council before the present "take it or leave it" plan was put through. The University can insist to its heart's content that Harvard Dining Halls are under "moral obligation" to stick to its word about the $8.50 board rate. But the registered protest of House petitions cannot be explained away...
...workers may have a strong protest to enter. Much debate may well be heard before a universal draft law is passed or enforced. But last week pressure for it had begun...
...command, bought up all stocks of clothes with bundles of their worthless "occupation marks." By report, the only relief the Axis has given to Greece has been 10,000 tons of grain which Italy sent from her own slim stores-secretly so that underfed Italians should not protest...