Word: rationalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only those with money get food. The shopkeepers show stony-faced callousness for the blind beggar boy, the orphan girl haltingly thrusting an empty G.I. ration can toward the grain baskets...
Britain's butchers carve the tiny weekly meat ration with surgeonlike skill; a slip of a fraction of an inch, and the legal eightpennyworth is exceeded. The Ministry of Food sometimes tests these craftsmen, and last week its testing methods came under fire...
Prime Minister Clement Attlee, striving to stave off an election until fall (when home killings of meat may have upped the ration and the coal shortage may be eased), tried to rally his men. "Keep your heads," he told a meeting of Labor M.P.s. "Restrain yourselves. Have patience. We shall not yield...
...Truman letter, the state of the nation Must wait to hear Fat Elmer's ration...
Like many office secretaries in England, 37-year-old Norah Maloney sets great store by her weekly 5-oz. ration of chocolate, caches it in the office filing cabinet. One morning last January Miss Maloney entered her office at David Shanks & Co., Birmingham manufacturers of sheet-metal pressings, found files and paper strewn about, the cash box rifled of ?4 2s. 9d. Her chocolate bar was half eaten...