Word: ration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Martin Merchant, long unwashed, his red beard tangled with sweat and dust, sat on a can of mortar ammunition and savored a cup of C-ration coffee. Three flies took swan dives into the coffee. Merchant looked at them philosophically. "You're not going to drink that stuff now, are you?" a correspondent asked. "Those flies just came off those dead over there in the ditch...
Democrats and Republicans alike had been hearing from constituents who were overwhelmingly in favor of price controls, though not so eager for either wage controls or rationing-which both Harry Truman and Bernard Baruch agreed go hand in hand with price control. Pennsylvania's Republican John Kunkel announced in the House that he was going to introduce an all-out, Baruch-like control bill. Since this reversed the Republicans' previous stand, Truman Democrats suspected a trap. There was no machinery ready to ration all goods and police all prices across the land; the Administration feared chaos would result...
Last week advance elements of the 1st Marine Division-a "reinforced regimental combat team" numbering about 5,000 men- landed at Pusan in South Korea. The marines, who carried, along with their shiny new equipment, a large ration of glory in their packs, arrived at the critical moment in the Korean fighting-which was also a critical moment in U.S. history.* Korea would not turn out to be much less tough than Guadalcanal; it might turn out to be tougher. The commander of the Marines in Korea, Brigadier General Edward Craig, has recently expressed an opinion...
Invitation to Inflation. Said Baruch: "Experience has taught us that when the Government steps into the market with such enormous demands requiring such quick priority, you must control all prices, including wages, rents, foods and other costs, eliminate profiteering and ration certain scarce essentials...
...around Washington the rumor went: wage and price controls would be here by Labor Day, and ration books were already being printed. The rumor even turned up at the President's press conference. May Craig, a chipper grandmother in a blue gingham dress and a correspondent for a string of Maine newspapers, asked Harry Truman about...