Word: rationer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baby foods are usually obtainable, but druggists have to watch for adult customers who buy baby foods to supplement their own skimpy milk ration...
Unlike most U.S. magazine publishers, many newspaper owners have been loth to ration their advertising or circulation; some of them have taken all they can get. Far from reducing newsprint consumption, a few U.S. metropolitan dailies have asked for (and gotten) extra paper to take care of increased business. In typical, war-swollen Seattle, circulations have soared-the Times is up 30% over a year ago-and so has advertising linage. On scores of papers the want-ad sections have blossomed into big cash-takers, as the manpower shortage forced employers to plead for "Girls...
...ration points are out of joint...
...keeps that well-fed look on the faces of AST men at Leverett House is Philip Hurley, assistant to Chief Steward Carl T. Tucker. Hurley juggles ration points in huge quantities and keeps a steady stream of miracles flowing from the kitchen...
...Citizen Franklin Roosevelt called for his housekeeper. Had his application for Ration Book 3 been mailed? White Housekeeper Mrs. Henrietta Nesblr looked at the clock, put in a hurry call for OPA, had the Post Office rush over a blank. Forms had been delivered, days before, to the big Presidential mail desk; but Harry Hopkins and other forehanded White House residents got there first. Crowding the deadline by hours, harried Housekeeper Nesbit mailed the Roosevelt application in time...