Word: rationalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climbed to ?774 million (a great improvement, but still only about a quarter of what Britain should have as leader and banker of the sterling area). Now came a reward: H.M.'s government was about to add two ounces a week to the Briton's sugar ration, and soon would be able to abandon sugar rationing entirely. Rab Butler accepted the pleased outcries with one of his rare smiles...
...East German Communists abruptly canceled, effective May 1, basic ration cards of some 40,000 Eastern Berliners who hold jobs in the city's Western sectors. The new order also voided the ration privileges of people engaged in what is left of private business in East Germany -all "owners, co-owners, partners and concessionaries of private industry or business employing more than five persons ... as well as wholesalers, owners and concessionaries of cafés and saloons, also retailers and [landlords...
...Without ration cards for foodstuffs and some consumer goods, these Berliners must go without, or buy in the state-owned HO stores, where prices are exorbitant. The Communists insisted that their latest squeeze had been done at the request of "the broadest stratum of our society, the workers." The real explanation, however, could be found in a Communist admission last week that production of meat, milk, cereals and sugar has fallen "far behind the plan" in East Germany...
Israel, a harassed and overcrowded Utopia-in-the-desert, is now shaking down to a grim fight to hang on, if possible, until long-term improvements begin to pay off. Israel's scant monthly food ration -four ounces of meat, two pounds of potatoes, a pound of frozen cod-makes oldtime British austerity seem almost pleasurable. Unrationed goods are priced skyhigh: $20 for cotton overalls, $8 for a pair of sandals, a month-and-a-half's wages for a radio...
...some odd reason, they put me in the tank corps; they never could teach me how to drive, I never could drive anything. So they said I was a menace and classified me as unteachable. Then in the Quartermaster Corps I was a butcher, assigned to a ration-breakdown. Enormous dead cows were tossed on the floor and I had to hack them up." Before he left the service, however, he managed to learn Bulgarian...