Word: rationer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quandary for Quinn. Fibber broods about such complaints. Quinn laughs them off. He does not even mind driving 30 miles into Hollywood three days a week to work free for OWI. One night after a Fibber & Molly show about gasoline rationing, Quinn got home to find himself in a quandary: there was a telegram from William Jeffers, then national rubber director, complimenting him on the program; there was also a letter from his ration board, denying him supplemental gasoline...
...noise. Hundreds of its butcher shops closed. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers still ate well-in restaurants. But many more did not. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia screamed at Washington: "You can't feed headlines to children!" He proposed that restaurant eaters be made to give up red ration points for meat served to them. Said the OPA of the Mayor's scheme: "Too late...
...prospect is that the soft-drinks business may have its sugar ration cut from 65% of prewar...
...Exile had already returned to Oslo last week on a British cruiser. As he drove through the capital in an open car, thousands of jubilant Norwegians shouted "Hiya, Olav." In London the rest of the royal family had assembled. While they waited, exiled Norwegians spent their time (and remaining ration coupons) on a last big buying binge...
There's a Peace On. General Allen wasted no time. A Regular Army soldier who fought with distinction in both World Wars I & II, Honk Allen has a knowl edge of newspapering that could be put into a K-ration container and still rattle around. He cavalierly announced that re porters had been present at the surrender "by the courtesy of SHAEF." And, using Kennedy's misdeed as a shillelagh, he an nounced that henceforth all newsmen in Europe would be let in on the Army's confidences chiefly because "I have engaged to be personally responsible...