Word: rationalizations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also at Chicago. Olive-skinned, dark-eyed, they shouted Vivas when they heard Chief Noodle-maker Henry Mueller of New York announce that the average Italian eats four miles of macaroni a year. But they shook their heads dolefully at the pitiful 211 feet which is the per capita ration...
Passed a bill increasing the ration allowance for enlisted men in the Army from 36? per day to 54?; sent it to the Senate...
...this huddled education for a ration...
...executive order President Coolidge increased the U. S. soldier's daily food ration from 35? to 50?. Some items in the new daily ration: Beef, fresh or frozen, 18 oz.; bacon, 6 oz.; flour, 18 oz.; beans, 1.2 oz.; rice, 8 oz.; potatoes, 17 oz,; onions, 5 oz.; prunes .384 oz.; sugar 4 oz.; butter, 1.75 oz.; pickles, .08 gill; cinnamon, .014 oz. Simultaneously, the War Department reduced the weight of the soldier's pack to 51 pounds...
Even so he is but a pygmy beside the gigantic sumos (wrestlers) of Japan, men who weigh up to 400 pounds, mountains of fat and muscle who boast that they eat ten times the daily ration of the ordinary Japanese. Anciently sumo (literally "horn power") was a contest of strength between trained bulls. Today 1,200 professional wrestlers, divided into teams, "The East" and "The West," perform at two great championship bouts of ten days' length twice yearly. Each tries to force or throw his individual opponent out of a ring; each has practiced to perfection the "twelve throws...