Word: rationalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that mood they heard Crookshank, who is chairman of the Tory Party food committee, tear into them. He pointed out that in 1938 inmates of workhouses got three times as much meat as the maximum ration today. Laborites writhed as he ticked off some of the sources from which Britain's meat now comes: "Cargoes of goats arriving at Hull . . . reindeer meat from Lapland . . ." The Tory benches roared when he exposed "a considerable [government] export scheme of English meat to the U.S. ... Canada and-the Argentine!" Cried Crookshank: "In a world under Socialist administration, the U.S. sends coal...
Britons sizzled last week over a 20% government cut in the tiny meat ration. The cut reduces the ration to eightpence (9?) worth a week-about one small lamb chop or a matchbox-sized piece of steak. This is an alltime low-less meat than sweat-&-tears Churchill gave them in the worst days...
London's Liberal News Chronicle pointed out another result of Socialist economies: with the new ration cut, the government is committed to subsidize butchers by an additional ?20 million ($56 million) yearly so that they can stay in business. Said the News Chronicle: "It will, therefore, cost the taxpayers four times as much not to have meat as it would cost the consumers to have...
Housing authorities turned over two houses for 15 quarantined families. Milk bottles delivered at the doors of contact houses were collected and destroyed. Ration books handled by a local grocer who caught the disease were called in and burned. Portions of his stock that could not be disinfected were destroyed. Some 80,000 residents of Brighton and environs flocked, with urging, to be vaccinated...
Stabilizer Alan Valentine talked bravely about making a big try to control meat prices, but nobody thought such controls could possibly work unless accompanied by rationingand Valentine was not printing any ration books...