Word: ration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Washington Brewed Here. To beer drinkers and nondrinkers alike, the drop in beer sales is surprising. Ever since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, with "our victuals much spent, especially our beer," beer has been one of the staples of U.S. life. Revolutionary War soldiers got a daily ration; George Washington had his own small home brewery at Mount Vernon. To the sun-baked fisherman, the lawn-mowing suburbanite, the baseball fan, beer has always been the symbol of inexpensive relaxation. This week, as July ushered in the height of the beer-drinking season, Americans were pouring upwards...
...Refugee Agencies provide a basic ration for 887,000 Arab refugees, primary education for 155,000 of their children. In Korea, the U.N. Reconstruction Agency has not only delivered immense amounts of food, fuel and machinery, but a team of British textile men who have taught their Korean spinners to speak English (with a Lancashire accent...
...Issued 25 emergency decrees empowering the Cabinet to ration food and fuel, requisition vehicles, arrest saboteurs without warrant...
Domestically, too, issues were hard to find; Labor's complaints of rising prices were matched by Tory assertions that a vote for Labor was a vote for ration books. The lack of noteworthy issues was generally taken to mean that the country is probably satisfied with its economic well-being and Tory government...
...grown bitter. He is not yet a card-carrying Communist. But he has joined the Red-led Confédération Générate du Travail, and he is swallowing Communist propaganda. The Communists predicted German rearmament, defeat in Indo-China, economic misery. "It's the only party that tells the truth," Bérard argues. Deep down, Jean is less a militant pro-Communist than a bitter man protesting. More than anything he would like to be somebody else. "If my parents had money, I would have been a student, and I think I would...