Word: rationalize
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Stumblebums. In St. Louis, three Texas sailors tossed 30 packs of cigarets out of their hotel window to civilians below, told police they had just wanted to "give 'em a thrill and watch 'em stumble." Disappointment. In Stamford, Conn., a woman called the ration board, asked for some extra points to send to her son in the South Pacific...
...forbidden Vienna, where he had served with a liaison mission. That mission, he said, was carried out successfully in an atmosphere of trust and good will. And incidentally, he added that the Viennese seemed surprised but happy under Russian occupation, which so far has netted them a larger food ration than Austrians get in the American zone, and also a government chosen from their own people...
This was important news to London women who, heedless of the warning that they must make their present ration coupons last until September, were wearing out shoes faster than ever last week in their biggest shopping spree since 1942. Stores were jammed all day, although most articles were in short supply. So dense were the shopping swarms that it took 20 minutes to move a few blocks on busy Oxford Street...
Quandary for Quinn. Fibber broods about such complaints. Quinn laughs them off. He does not even mind driving 30 miles into Hollywood three days a week to work free for OWI. One night after a Fibber & Molly show about gasoline rationing, Quinn got home to find himself in a quandary: there was a telegram from William Jeffers, then national rubber director, complimenting him on the program; there was also a letter from his ration board, denying him supplemental gasoline...
Quinn wired Jeffers: "I am very happy to have tried to help. . . . But the . . . joke of the evening was written by [my] ration board...