Word: rationalize
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...resistance movement around Cherbourg was originally organized by three groups. One was Libération, organized by Socialists, scholars and labor leaders; a second was Front National, organized by Communists; and the third was called Organisation Civile et Militaire, a non-political organization, and the strongest in the Cherbourg area. Now by decree of the Algiers Government, combat elements of these groups are merged into the Forces Françaises de VIntérieure, a unit of the French Army under command of General Joseph Pierre Koenig (see WORLD BATTLE-FRONTS). According to resistance chiefs in Cherbourg, the movement...
...biggest stockholder in the Fund, would have considerable say (amounting practically to a veto) if any other nation wanted to devalue by more than 10%. In return the British would get something : if any nation's currency became scarce, other nations might, with the consent of the Fund, ration the scarce currency. This means that if the U.S. insists on selling more than it buys (making dollars hard for others to get), other nations, instead of having to give up their gold, can put a partial embargo against U.S. imports. This would leave the U.S. free to choose...
...Beaches. In the fair fields where the tide had rolled, the ground was littered with the debris of battle- tanks, jeeps, rifles, ration tins, bulldozers, first-aid kits, canteens. Everywhere lay the dead-weltering in the waves along the shore, lying heaped in ditches, sprawling on the beaches. Here & there in trees hung the shattered body of a paratrooper. In field hospitals, the wounded lay. The smell of ether mingled with the smell of earth. Probably no one yet knew the price that had been paid for the first week in Normandy...
...invasion week's end, the pubs were full of invasion talk. But people also talked inexhaustibly about the cut in the milk ration, about boiling fowls which were 25 shillings ($5.00) in the black market, virtually unobtainable elsewhere at the controlled price of eight shillings sixpence...
Counterfeiting has always required the services of an artist, of sorts; no camera has ever been made with lenses sensitive enough to capture the fine lines on a bill without so running them together that they look broken and blurred. Asked what sort of artist might have done the ration-stamp job, Keystone Photo-Engraving's J. S. Kellogg figured he must be what is known as a "label artist," an oldtime lithographer or a steel engraver. Mr. Kellogg also accorded the retiring genius a craftsman's accolade. The man who made his all-but-perfect copy...