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...Britain, food rationing has continued, clothing rations are reduced, and "the only relaxations from full wartime austerity have been the end of the blackout and the return of the (very small) basic petrol ration...
...France's more delightful postwar fracases started last July, when gaunt, puritan Finance Minister René Pleven (a nonsmoker) refused to issue tobacco ration cards to women, implied that it was improper for them to smoke, anyway...
...shove the tokens down [Dominion Price Boss] Donald Gordon's throat." Butchers in St. John, N.B. and Edmonton, Alta. threatened to close their shops. In Moncton, N.B., meat dealers gave away half a ton of bologna, frankfurters and chicken loaf (on which few buyers would waste ration points...
...week's end, the Government was chewing the toughest cut of all. Some 600 western Ontario meat dealers decided to return all ration tokens and forms to the Prices Board, with a note that they had no further use for them. Then they would open shop for unrationed business as usual. The next move: the Government...
...American-occupied zone, control authorities kicked out 40,000 Berlin block, street and house leaders. They had originally been appointed by the Russians to search out known Nazis, handle ration cards, report on available labor. The American report was that the small-fry German leaders had begun to wield power in their neighborhoods just as arrogantly as their predecessors in Germany's notorious block organizations had done under Hitler; some of them had actually worked under the Nazi regime. (The British still held to the block leaders, warned them not to consider themselves little kings but servants...