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Word: rationer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Michigan convicts had finished mailing 2,300,000 No. 3 ration books for OPA, prison officials found that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WARTIME LIVING: . . . Nor Iron Bars a Cage | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...Numerous Michigan housewives had received mash notes enclosed in their ration books. Said an OPA official: "None of the notes were what could be described as vulgar. They merely emphasized a tendency to jolly the public along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WARTIME LIVING: . . . Nor Iron Bars a Cage | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

Hayes declared that civilian House members were allowed only 93 ration points per meal, while Navy men are given 1.96 points, or over twice the ration of the civilians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL ENDS FOOD PROTEST | 8/24/1943 | See Source »

...Lived on Ration C ; slept on straw in Telegma; shot at Nazis over La Hencha bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Farmboy Comes Home | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...brushed aside all questions: nothing at all --just going to Springfield -"for my annual visit with my mother." (Anna Louisa Lewis is 84.) This quote got into the papers. Decatur residents, remembering that John L. Lewis lived 750 miles away in Alexandria, Va., put in outraged calls to their ration board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: John Takes A Trip | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

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