Word: rationalizing
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About 21,200,000 U.S. women are busy as squirrels this year trying to put up the crops of vegetables and fruit with half as much sugar as they would have used last year. To get any sugar at all for canning, each had to look her local ration board in the eye, cross her heart and tell how many quarts of fruit she canned last year, how many quarts remain on her pantry shelves, how many quarts she expects to put up this year, the number of people in her family. The ration board then allowed her only...
...down chiseling and bootlegging, OPA suspended the supplies of many gas dealers who failed, according to Leon Henderson's snoops, to punch ration cards...
Windshield stickers must bear the letter (A, B, C) of the car's ration card after July...
...Rules. OPA increased prices 2½? per gallon for gas, unveiled new ration rules on permanent cards to be issued next week. Next probable move: to extend rationing westward to include 93 more counties in New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia...
...thus far OPA stood firm, although conceding that warehouses are full. OPA turned down pleas for sugar allowances beyond ration limits. Behind OPA's stubbornness was fear -fear of shipping losses and of withdrawal of ships from the sugar business for military use. After all, the U.S. imports most (70%) of its sugar, and ships are needed for a second front as well as for imports...