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Last week Tito was tightening the Yugoslav belt. The third of the population which carries ration cards had its bread cut by 10%. The quotas of grain which each peasant community is required to sell to the government were sliced by an overall 43%. Reported U.S. Ambassador George V. Allen to Washington: "There will be serious starvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Belt Tightener | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...woman with an easygoing moral sense, but with enough common sense to know that the best thing to do with life is to live it. A Fearful Joy is not topflight Gary; sometimes it reads like a fast imitation of his best writing. But there is still a rich ration of fun in it, and the old Gary feel for the texture and grain of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Substance of Life | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...past several months, the supply of newsprint has tightened and the grey-market price has shot up. Last week, amid rumors of a newsprint shortage, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reluctantly announced: it can't get the paper it needs and will have to ration advertising (old customers served first). Rationing would cut its volume 20% under last year's. Said President George C. Diggers: "We figured we would save some newsprint by consolidating the Sunday papers (TIME, March 27), but we did not save enough to make up for the expansion of the daily Constitution . . . For a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Squeeze | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

North Koreans have reasons for disliking Communism, Lee explains. The Russians stripped the section of plants, machinery, and ration-scarce rice. Also the Russians intend that Korea should not be independent, but belong to the Soviet Union, as one of its republics. Such a Kremlin policy was publicized by the present North Korean foreign minister...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: Son of Korean Farmer Studies at Business School; Returns Next Year | 10/6/1950 | See Source »

...unlikely occurrence since most of India's 176 million cow population perform the useful function of providing motive power, milk, and dung for fuel. The relatively small number of aged cattle who roam the streets and paths are cared for like beggars by the community. Their meager grass ration is no serious drain on food resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Duck for Rajrishi | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

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