Word: rationalization
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...King strode into the Safe way Store, ordered dried beans, evaporated milk, sugar, coffee, Karo syrup. The grocer asked for his ration book. "A ration book, hey?" The suspicious hermit reddened with anger. "I have money to pay for what I need. You have to sell it to me." Not so, retorted the grocer: the King must register. "I'll sign for nothing," shouted the King. "All the book I need is in my gun belt." He drew the pistol, tossed some bills on the counter, scooped up his supplies, backed...
Last week the law caught up with the King. He walked again to Idaho Springs with no ration book save his shooting iron. The sheriff and two aides ambushed him on Main Street, handcuffed him before he could draw. In jail the King mellowed, read the newspapers-and somewhat caught up with the changed times...
...Done." The fight within OPA was typically illustrated in an argument over sugar for home canning. Messrs. O'Leary and Rowe said there was not enough sugar to give housewives an extra supply; consumers must give up a lot of ration coupons to get canning sugar. The slide-rulers stubbornly insisted nothing else would work. But Prentiss Brown went to the Agriculture Department and the War Shipping Administration, worked out an arrangement to import 200,000 tons of Cuba sugar for home canners, who will get it without surrendering ration coupons...
Prisoners at Camp Phillips, as at other centers, are divided into three groups, depending on the heinousness of their offenses and the prospects of their reform: 1) first-grade prisoners get basic infantry training all over again, a tobacco ration, may write two letters a week, may be visited by their families on Sundays and holidays, may read certain books and magazines; 2) second-graders are restricted to one letter a week, may keep only one book, a magazine and Bible in their quarters; 3) extreme cases are completely restricted: no tobacco, one letter a month, four trips...
...Interspersed were bedraggled treks to the messhall for really very good food (garrison ration). Lights were put out at nine although one could come in later if he didn't make any noise. During the night various people came in and out from and to KP, guard duty, etc. (shades of coming events...