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...rains had been kind, and the harvests big. After four parched years, in which discontent grew, 1951 had been a bumper year, and crop prospects were excellent again. Last week Francisco Franco had cheering news for his hard-pressed people: they could throw away the ration cards which they have been using ever since he came to power...
...eight days the 20,000 people of Tanjong Malim had been confined to their homes. In the brief two hours a day in which they were allowed out to buy a reduced ration of rice, they had to pawn belongings to pay shopkeepers' soaring prices...
Immediately, 70 miles to the south, Templer clamped a new curfew and a reduced rice ration on the 4,000 inhabitants of Sungei Pelek. Here Templer hoped his new curfew-and-questionnaire technique would smoke out the whereabouts of 30-year-old Liew Kon Kim, a shrewd Communist leader known as "the bearded wonder." Templer imposed another curfew on 80 square miles of Communist-terrorized rubber estates and tin mines between Kuala Lumpur and Pahang state...
...stock up their pantries. Last week, apprehensive lest its citizens are becoming too complacent, the War Office urged all householders to look to their larders again. For the first time, the War Office arranged for the sale of a $2 package containing a minimum one-person, two-month ration of imported products (two kilos of rice, two of sugar, and one liter of oil). Did the War Office fear a war? Not at all, said a spokesman-just being vigilant and prudent in order to stay calm...
...honest, but it's no great discredit if you're dishonest." Everybody helped himself. Senators who had spent half a million buying enough votes to win got their investment back in millions. For the President's congressional pals, there was a $4,000,000-a-month ration from the state lottery pork barrel. Sticky-fingered politicos picked up fortunes on contracts, customs deals, sugar quota allocations...