Word: rationalizing
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...primary mistake: relaxing food rationing last spring. That, said Chester Bowles, was an experiment which failed. But an even greater one, he added, was the promise made at that time that OPA would always give proper advance notice when food ration stamps were to be canceled. In making this promise, Chester Bowles said flatly: "We were wrong...
...bearing some of the blame that belonged to the War Food Administration, which sets the food policies for OPA to carry out. Last spring and summer, sometimes against OPA's advice, WFA's kewpie-faced, easygoing Marvin Jones cheerily experimented with taking some meats off the ration lists.* Sharing Washington's war optimism, through OPA he also ordered wholesalers and retailers to reduce sharply their stores of canned goods, to get ready for quick handling of surpluses in case the European war ended suddenly. Result: with so many foods moving point-free, OPA found it harder...
...Despite many ration-free meats last week, Manhattan's Harvard and Union Clubs were accused by their butchers of being investigated by OPA. If guilty both faced a meatless, pointless New Year...
...great many people long to escape, not from useful work but from worry and anxiety. The Dark Ages were not abnormally religious, but they were extremely uncomfortable and dangerous. That is why Europe was covered with monastic houses. By entering religion, men and women were assured a prison ration of the necessaries of life, and could exist in peace and safety...
...proved that it could supply both guns and butter. But few expected that 1944 would be the annus mirabilis that would not only see an increase in the supply of guns, but no material reduction in the ration of butter (or a reasonable facsimile thereof...