Word: rationalization
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...farm practice." Experts agreed that Butch was no authority, but no one minded that. He watched a parade of trucks poop-poop through Climax loaded with 20,000 bushels of wheat. He made a speech, waving a few pieces of macaroni: "This is a day's ration in many places...
...appalling responsibilities of victory had come to be represented by one word. "Bread," said Herbert Hoover in Cairo last week, "has a reality as the symbol of life as never before in history. ... To reduce the bread ration has become a symbol of calamity...
...translate the balance sheet of wheat tonnage figures into terms of human need was not easy. The experts agreed that it was quite possible that the figures spelled starvation for scores of millions of people. But the starvation could be "controlled" (spread out into disease-breeding malnutrition) by rationing. The experts said that a human needed at least 2,200 calories a day. The average U.S. citizen (still eating more than he had before the war) consumed more than 3,200 calories a day. In India there were at least 55 million city-dwellers living on a ration...
...French zone of Germany the ration was 940 calories; in the British zone about a thousand; in the U.S. zone 1,275; in the Russian zone 1,300 to 1,500. Germans were not dropping dead on the streets. But a U.S. military government officer explained the relation of calories to life this way: on 700 calories a man could stay alive if he kept in bed with warm covering; on 1,000 calories he could walk around the room a bit; on 1,300 he could perform light work. The British economist, Sir Arthur Salter, said: "Ten million . . . Germans...
...city's churches, whose fresh paint will be ornamented with red and white flowers, hyacinths, roses and lilacs. For paskha and koulich, the elaborate cakes which, with colored eggs, are taken to the churches to be blessed on Easter eve, white flour can be bought with ordinary ration coupons. (Nonbelievers also rushed for white flour to make festive cakes for Red May Day, highpoint of Communism's liturgical year...