Word: ratione
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Neither soft-pedaling nor retaliation could halt growing evidences that French hunger cramps in occupied France were increasing. Food racketeers daily pored over obituary lists in the newspapers, then, while posing as municipal police, collected ration cards from relatives of the dead. Fines as high as 100,000 francs ($2,000) and prison terms of three years could not stamp out food bootleggers...
...Ration food...
When it was ordered that mention of exiled King Haakon be stricken from prayers, Norwegian Lutheran ministers developed the practice of pausing while congregations thunderously filled in the deletion. With other insignia banned, loyal Norsemen now wear in their buttonholes bread-ration cards, still stamped with King Haakon's arms...
Lord Woolton is a Tory and the left-wing press answered the Minister of Food by headlining "WOOLTON MUST GO!" The tabloid Daily Mirror attacked the Government by sending its columnist Cassandra out with a full wallet to gorge himself in London restaurants where rationing does not apply. Wrote replete Cassandra peevishly: "Within five days I have eaten at least seven times my weekly meat ration, five times my butter ration. . . . Not content with this debauch I have swallowed saddle of hare in wine sauce, lobster Thermidor, the inevitable (if you live that way) caviar, Hungarian pork goulash, quails...
Henceforth, according to Lord Woolton, the meat ration will probably be readjusted from time to time, and as another week began he adjusted it up from...