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...Rations in France. Assuming that, as real allies, they will share & share alike on foodstuffs, what the French Government announced last week certainly sounded like an Allied food scare. On three days each week, pastry stores will be closed; on three days (including Saturday) each week, no spirits may be sold by liquor stores (wines & beer, unrestricted). Restaurants may henceforth serve only two-course meals, only one meat course. Butter is restricted. This week a census begins, to be the basis for gasoline ration cards in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRAND STRATEGY: Half-Year Mark | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...loss of 6,000 tons of chilled beef was a loss indeed for Britons. On March 11, the United Kingdom goes on a ration of 1 shilling 10 pence worth of fresh meat per adult person per week (children under 6, half that). This will mean one pound to a pound and one-half, according to the cut, including fat and bone. Normal British meat consumption is one pound and three-quarters per person per week. But liver, kidneys, tongue, sausage will not be rationed, and restaurants may sell meat meals irrespective of ration cards, but their meat supply will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Our Weakest Flank | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Germany's meat ration is one pound, 1.6 ounces per person per week. Germany takes pride that, under totalitarian control, her wholesale food prices have advanced only .5% while Great Britain's are up 24%. In World War I, Britain did not ration meat until February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Our Weakest Flank | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...rubber can withstand the buzz-saw effect of eight machine guns, set in fours in the leading wing-edge of British pursuit planes so that their fixed fire converges. The British censorship last week released photographs of such a pursuit ship: 1) being fed its python-like ration of bullets; 2) standing over a drift of empty cartridges during a trial burst of fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Rubber and Buckskin | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...queues and ration cards were in force as today; but delicacies were still obtainable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Starve Thy Enemy | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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