Word: rationality
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...best, the offer was designed to sow tension and distrust among Red flyers, keep flight leaders so busy worrying about out-of-sight pilots that they would not be able to tend to their business. There was even the possibility that, to prevent defection, the Reds might ration fuel, thus limiting the time the MIGs can stay in the air to patrol and fight...
...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...
Spring had come gently to Britain. Chestnuts were pushing out baby buds, and clotted cream was off the ration and was being spread thickly on Devonshire scones. Talk of peace (if not peace itself) was in the air. A queen would soon be crowned; the sound of hammering could be heard all over Mayfair as viewing stands went up.* Rab Butler's budget matched what seemed to be a common British resolve: to make the coronation year a gala occasion...
...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...