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...Boss Chester Bowles declared a ration holiday on all meats except beef steaks and beef roasts. Meat stocks were on the increase and cold-storage space was critically short...
...TIME (April 17) you published a picture of Fala and his birthday cake. The White House must have a surplus of ration points to be able to bake a cake for a dog. . . . Surely, Fala could have celebrated his birthday with a larger portion of regular dog food...
Herriman believed that animals are superior to human beings. He would never ride a horse. He tried to be a vegetarian, had to give it up when he became too weak. To the end of his life nearly all his ration points for meat went to satisfy the sleek gang of stray dogs and cats he took care...
...case the Fund's holdings of one country's currency runs short (as U.S. dollars might, for example, if the U.S. sold a lot more goods abroad than it bought), then the Fund Committee could ration that nation's currency and recommend measures (e.g., tariff reduction) to do away with the causes of such lopsided exchange...
...market had opened up weeks before when 17-year-old Bruce Wier, a high-school senior (whose parents are in Oregon), raided a ration board, swiped enough stamps for several thousand gallons. He peddled them at Skateland, got $3 to $5 for a strip of 24 three-gallon stamps. Some boys bought job lots and resold them. Babyfaced, nonchalant Wier was finally apprehended and removed to the Federal Correctional Institution in Arapahoe County. Said he proudly: "I blew probably more than $1,000 on wine, women and song, like they say in stories...