Word: rationalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happy as the great review closed, George V, as Lord High Admiral of England, ordered "Splice the main brace!" This used to mean that every man aboard got a ration of rum nicely calculated to make him feel elated without getting him too drunk to be of further use- ⅛pint. Today those who do not wish to become elated can ask for a limeade, never mentioned by the King without picturesque additions...
...Civilian Conservation Corps. If the Chamber of Deputies supplies the funds, Flandin's CCC camps will be set up in 13 of France's 90 departments to put French unemployed to work at reforestation and roadbuilding, the men to get food, lodging, clothes and a wine ration, their families to get their wage...
From these cryptic words, Fascist theorists last week deduced that on the day Italy declares war, Mussolini will begin state capitalism, take over all industrial, commercial, agricultural and transport activities. Both employers and workers will be paid fixed salaries in scrip or ration cards. The profits, estimated at 100 billion lire ($8,600,000,000) a year, will go to the Government. Not loans, not taxes, but business profits, will thus finance Italy's next...
...caterer slops into each seaman's "basin" (bowl) one part rum in three parts water. The rum is mixed in a large tub around whose rim, in brass letters, are the words: "The King-God Bless Him." On the King's birthday all hands get a double ration of straight rum. First class petty officers get half rum, half water. Chief petty officers and warrant officers get straight rum. In the great 19th Century days of the British Navy, the man who passed up his rum ration and took the Government's allowance of tuppence (4?) instead...
...Conference, Dr. Currie believes that it was regrettable that so much international ill-will has resulted, but it would have been even more so if agreement had been attained by a definite commitment on our part to link the dollar to a fixed ration to gold. Going on to explain, Dr. Currie said...