Word: rationalizations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present the United States is producing only about half as much per acre as the intensely cultivated European countries, such as England. Denmark, and Belgium. Taking a soldier's ration as the standard, the European countries produce about one soldier's ration from three acres of land. We produce only one ration from six acres today. If we increase our effectiveness of production to the European standard, which is about the limit, we would be able to produce about 170,000,000 soldiers' rations...
...average man or woman, however, does not consume quite so much as a full soldier's ration per year, so that we might make a rough estimate, that the country could support 190,000,000 people with our present living standards. This would mean, of course, that the present rate of production would be increased to the European standard...
...long suffering public is entitled to what little pleasure it can extract from its daily measure of scandal. The sibylline Senator from New Hampshire, George Higgins Moses, happily forecasting no restriction of the oil scandal ration, said...
Prussian prisoners are provided with only one bath in four weeks; they are allowed a weekly ration of only 125 grams of meat; saccharine they are given for sugar; their linen is changed but fortnightly. All this is to economize. Berlin journals said it was short-sighted and that prisoners will leave jail more angry than when they entered...
News was received that Prince John II of Liechtenstein recently celebrated the 65th year of his reign. According to reports from Austrian sources, all school children in the Principality received a ration of white bread and a dish of sausages to celebrate the occasion. The Prince, who spends a good deal of his time in Vienna, made a practical contribution of 10,000 Swiss francs ($1,728) toward the building of a fifth bridge over the Rhine, which divides Liechtenstein from Switzerland. Prince John, aged 83, ascended the throne of Liechtenstein on Nov. 12, 1858, when...