Word: rationalization
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...Government, by the "kiss-impression" method, a light blue application of the cut which would make the outline of the eagle faint but discernible. The airplane cut would be superimposed. The completed work of art would have been so nearly exact a duplicate of a sheet of legitimate ration stamps that, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas F. Murphy "only the very expert and suspicious" could tell the difference...
...agents found that there were plans to unload, on the unsuspicious and in expert, some 5,120,000 gasoline ration "A" stamps, representing 15,360,000 gallons, and 1,560,000 shoe coupons, representing as many pairs of shoes. They arrested the printing shop proprietors, naturalized, Russian-born Harry Dubitsky, and naturalized, Austrian-born Max Spiegel, who had tangled with the law once before (1926) as a printer of indecent literature...
This was the first step, Attorney Murphy told reporters, toward the cracking of a powerful counterfeiting syndicate which "could have almost wrecked the nation's anti-inflationary ration system." Pleased as the agents were with their first step, and eager as they were to break the ring and discover its backers, nothing interested them more acutely than the artist who had made the whole business possible...
...Berlin a 27-year-old woman was beheaded for snatching another woman's purse. Execution for such trivial offenses was decreed to help stop the flow of stolen ration cards into the hands of speculators...
...women alike were fed one-twentieth of a Japanese soldier's ration, deprived of medical supplies, forced to do back-breaking work all day, slapped, kicked, often beaten. All wept for joy when liberated, ravenously gobbled up the Army's K ration - the best food they had tasted in more than a year...