Word: rationer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons scarcely noted the first rumblings of an acrimonious debate in the U.S. Congress over the British loan. They were more worried about dried eggs. Long the butt of G.I. wisecracks, the yellow powder is no joke to Britons, and when the Food Ministry announced that the monthly ration of one package (equivalent to twelve eggs) would have to end, there was a housewifely clamor...
...advanced enrollees only, a 65-cent-a-day garrison ration will be paid, an "officer-type" uniform will be supplied with overcoat and shoes, and exemption from the provisions of the Selective Service Act will be guaranteed...
Once afoul of British ration laws for trying to get a fur coat from the U.S., she thought she might bag one this trip, "if I have any gentlemen friends." Newsreel men handed her a canned speech to read. "That's the worst speech I ever heard," said she. Cameramen took closeups. "We never did this to Mrs. Roosevelt," the Viscountess protested. "No other country in the world behaves like America!" At interview's end she moved off, cried loudly as she departed, laughing: "Goodbye, you horrors-you horrors...
Never before had it been so easy to count Canadian noses-ration books showed how many were eating, Dominion employment offices how many were working, Dominion rental bureaus who was living where. The Statistics Bureau decided that it could make an informed guess without waiting for 1951's door-to-door canvass...
...Angeles housewife sought an eastbound airplane flight reservation and, when asked for her priority, carefully removed an airplane stamp from her ration book and handed it to the clerk...