Word: rationer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington took it off the ration list. But meat-some meat-was viewed with alarm last week by Detroit's Dr. S. E. Gould. Dr. Gould was brooding about trichinosis, the sometimes-fatal worm disease that people get from infested pork...
...Britain, food rationing has continued, clothing rations are reduced, and "the only relaxations from full wartime austerity have been the end of the blackout and the return of the (very small) basic petrol ration...
...France's more delightful postwar fracases started last July, when gaunt, puritan Finance Minister René Pleven (a nonsmoker) refused to issue tobacco ration cards to women, implied that it was improper for them to smoke, anyway...
...shove the tokens down [Dominion Price Boss] Donald Gordon's throat." Butchers in St. John, N.B. and Edmonton, Alta. threatened to close their shops. In Moncton, N.B., meat dealers gave away half a ton of bologna, frankfurters and chicken loaf (on which few buyers would waste ration points...
...week's end, the Government was chewing the toughest cut of all. Some 600 western Ontario meat dealers decided to return all ration tokens and forms to the Prices Board, with a note that they had no further use for them. Then they would open shop for unrationed business as usual. The next move: the Government...