Word: rationalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opened a procurement office in St. John's Water Street. It had a list of Newfoundland firms ready to provide anything from Alka Seltzer to zwieback. In its first week the new office placed $17,340 worth of orders and signed a contract for a month's ration of bread. Newfoundland merchants beamed. The Yanks were bringing boom times, and the end was nowhere in sight...
...still so young that she had to have the blue ration card issued to children (a source of shame and grief to her), but her Ophelia was excitingly mature. She was given a try for Laurence Olivier's film, Hamlet. She lost the part to Jean Simmons, but Moviemaker J. Arthur Rank was impressed by her, and signed her to a film contract. Her first movie was called The Blind Goddess, a run-of-the-mill picture whose memory still makes Claire wince ("I was a modern ingenue, dancing at the Savoy, that sort of nothing type of thing...
...curtailing its purchases and relying largely on its own synthetic rubber, forced the price of natural back down to about 30^. That slump hurt Malaya and Indonesia, as well as Ceylon; but on top of it, Ceylon had a rice crop failure this year. It had to reduce the ration to a bare subsistence level...
...contest, and it just happened to have on hand the Saturday issue of The Dartmouth, or rather the CRIMSON version of it. Green undergraduates got out of bed after a night's revelry to read that their varsity had suffered food poisoning from a training table candy ration...
...where's and when's of long-term brigade work and whether the teacher in question should be sent to an agricultural brigade for the 'Battle of Grain' or a building brigade. It is at these meetings that teachers obtain their share of ration tickets for shoes, raincoats and briefcases...