Word: rationalization
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...Henry Haas, the Ada Rehan staggered on. At an Arabian port the crew refused to serve further under Haas, but were at last won over. In Khorramshahr, Haas went ashore, came back with a beer-drinking baboon. When the crew tried to cut down the baboon's beer ration, he broke from his cage, bit Haas and splashed ashore. The men organized a safari, chased the baboon and killed...
Government liquor-store operators sold a 26-oz. crock of gin, rum or wine every 27 seconds from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Beer supplies were soon exhausted: sales were estimated at 10,000 glasses in a day. Because many a farmer had left his meat ration coupons home, grocers had a field day. Said one: "I sold more bananas and sardines than I'll ever sell again one day if I stay in business 100 years...
...building bricks to 50%. Farmers had discovered that bomb craters were good spots to store manure. Said 68-year-old Anton Halmer: "I never had time to dig a hole deep enough until you fellows did the job for me in a couple of minutes." Inns-bruckers, whose official ration is 1,250 calories a day, looked well-fed and prosperous. Many a middle-class woman looked as though she had just stepped out of "Lanz of Salzburg's" Fifth Ave. window. Of 50 women on Innsbruck's main street, 38 were wearing solid leather ski boots...
Dear Diary. In London, Actress Hermione Gingold discreetly overlooked the theft of her ration book, furs, dresses and whiskey, appealed for the return of her diary, because "it has telephone numbers essential to my plans...
...sister's 15,000-yen inheritance. It had taken him, he said, only one stroke of the ax to kill Nizaemon, but rather more to cut off his wife's head. He never had liked her; she had refused to give him more than his regular ration for supper...