Word: rationality
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...career that success can further into a profession; most U.S. skiers are college men with other careers in mind. Among the U.S. men, the best bet is Salt Lake City's Jack Reddish, on Navy leave, who won a fourth in the 1950 F.I.S. (Fédération Internationale de Ski) world championships...
...resulting deadlock, the U.S. had to dip into its strategic stockpile, ration tin to industry. Columnist David Lawrence charged Bolivia, in collusion with British-Southeast Asia interests, with "the biggest holdup in the whole field of raw materials," and asserted that its tin owners, "now getting a 100% return on their invested capital, expect even more if the new phases of the blackmail should be successful...
...Life. Chicago's Quaker Oats Co. will start putting chlorophyllin in all its Ken-L-Ration dog food, guarantees that after seven days of eating only its new food, dogs will be completely odorless-except to other dogs...
...their own conclusions from what they saw and heard at the front. The ensuing high-level ruckus, which reverberated all the way to Washington and Key West (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), did not trouble the men in the front lines. Using a bayonet to dig chunks of ham from a ration can, one G.I. sighed happily: "Man, this is pure heaven...
...such penalties as a raise in his taxes, a cut in his salary-even disqualification for life from public office. Another, even more compelling, warning was given on the radio: those who fail to vote risk loss of the two most treasured documents that Spaniards possess: food and tobacco ration cards. Despite such pressure, only about 70% of the eligible heads of families turned out at the polls last week...