Word: rationalizing
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...experience of Aachen, M.G. moved fast and seemed to know what it was doing. An ex-police chief removed by the Nazis in 1933 was found and reinstated, as were 123 cops who passed the M.G. muster. As each resident was registered and fingerprinted, he got a ration card. With the assistance of 63 ex-telephone-company employes, telephone service was partially restored...
...correspondent asked a seven-year-old girl in Aachen what she thought of Adolf Hitler. Remembering her candy ration at school, she said: "He's a nice man who gives me chocolates." Her brother, 12, piped that Britain was a robber who ought to be punished, the U.S. a country run by "Jewish plutocrats...
...Well, apparently; and TIME hopes it's mutual. Says Mrs. Ehrmantraut: there were 108 motorists; they put $38 in the hat, wrecked only one baby's highchair, already rickety. The ration board supplied 200 extra red points. Last week Mrs. Ehrmantraut received the Good Neighbor Orchid from Blue Network's Hollywood Breakfast Club...
Frances Alda, plump, redhaired, old-time Metropolitan Opera diva who retired in 1929, was charged in Manhattan's Yorkville Court with swiping 300 red ration points from her ex-cook, Mrs. Barbara Neill. Cook Neill, who worked only one month for Mme. Alda, claimed that she had handed over her ration books to her employer when she started, got back the books minus 300 points (a normal six-months' supply) when she was dismissed. Mme. Alda's attorney called the charges "fantastic," declared: "Even if Mme. Alda could settle this case for $50, she would spend thousands...
...Albert Forster of Seaham, county of Durham, had prompted these observations by a letter to the Lancet on the mild nutritional disease common in Britain's "one-ration-book households." Women living alone often do not get enough meat and fruit, fail to eat raw vegetables. Many would rather just have a meal of tea, bread and margarine than bother with vegetables...