Word: ratione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next to the Baruch plan, the most arresting proposal the Commission heard last week came from New York's swart little Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia. A War aviator, Representative La Guardia wanted a constitutional amendment to allow a wartime Government to declare a moratorium, nationalize all industry, ration the entire civil population and conscript everyone "from Texas Guinan to J. P. Morgan." Ships, railroads, everything would be taken over without compensation and returned later to their owners without damage payments. Testified this Republican insurgent...
Previously a Russian has had to apply for a ration card in order to buy a pair of shoes or a scuttleful of coal. Having obtained this card (after wrangling and explanations as to why he needed shoes-it being no explanation to wiggle one's bare toes) the next step was to take the card and stand in a slow-moving line of perhaps 500 persons. In the boxoffice would be a clerk, bored and discourteous. When the barefoot man with the card got to this clerk, perhaps after standing in line half a day, he might...
...barrels, exported them for human consumption to France, Holland, Italy, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Most of the raw material was wild range horses raised on 15 Chappel-owned ranches, which total 1,500,000 acres, in Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming. Chappel products are several? puppy ration, kitty ration, kennel biscuit, pheasant meal, and leather specialties, besides food for grown dogs and foreigners? but P. M. Chappel has never attempted to sell horse meat as food for U. S. humans...
Celebrating "fizz-night" a week before the Oxford-Cambridge boat-race, Oxford and Cambridge oarsmen gathered last week in their respective training quarters near Putney, England. To each was served, instead of the measly training-table ration of one glass of port or 1½ pints of beer, a full, fat bottle of champagne. After watching the crews train for six weeks, critics said: "Neither can be called really good...
...avert a riot, England's merchants, hard-pressed themselves by the Depression, began to dole out food to the hungry. More than 300 were each supplied with a ration worth $2.75. Fearful of a repetition of the raid, Lawyer Morris declared: "These people just simply got hungry. The merchants of England must either move their goods or mount machine guns on their stores...