Word: ration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Life. Chicago's Quaker Oats Co. will start putting chlorophyllin in all its Ken-L-Ration dog food, guarantees that after seven days of eating only its new food, dogs will be completely odorless-except to other dogs...
...their own conclusions from what they saw and heard at the front. The ensuing high-level ruckus, which reverberated all the way to Washington and Key West (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), did not trouble the men in the front lines. Using a bayonet to dig chunks of ham from a ration can, one G.I. sighed happily: "Man, this is pure heaven...
...such penalties as a raise in his taxes, a cut in his salary-even disqualification for life from public office. Another, even more compelling, warning was given on the radio: those who fail to vote risk loss of the two most treasured documents that Spaniards possess: food and tobacco ration cards. Despite such pressure, only about 70% of the eligible heads of families turned out at the polls last week...
...this?" His remedy sounded much like those of his Socialist predecessors, Cripps and Gaitskell: more austerity. Imports will be slashed $1 billion, partly by reducing purchases of canned meats, sugar products and fruits in Europe, paring another 2? off the tiny meat ration (total: two small chops weekly), buying less butter, bacon and cheese. The dreary British menu will be thinner and less nourishing than it was after Dunkirk. British tourists will find it more difficult to take steak-hunting vacations on the Continent: their annual foreign travel allowance will be decreased to $140 apiece. There will be fewer housing...
While the Allied High Commissioners and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer dickered, Soviet puppets kept new sideshows going in East Germany. Wilhelm Pieck, East German President, returned from six weeks in Moscow. East Germany took honey, soap and rayon off the ration list, and Propaganda Boss Gerhart Eisler cooed his "deep regrets" that West Germans wouldn't be able to enjoy the same privileges until unification-though the fact is that such rations are no problem in West Germany. East German Premier Otto Grotewohl announced an amnesty for 20,000 prisoners (crimes unspecified, presumably political...