Word: rationer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fruits and vegetables were arriving from South Africa. But the average Briton was still plagued with shortages. He was limited to a shillingsworth of meat (tuppence of it in corned beef), and fats and soap were hard to find. The current music-hall gag on the subject: "The soap ration doesn't worry me-with the food I get I ain't got the strength to wash." To make up for the shortage of clothing coupons, film studios rented wedding dresses from their costume racks. Thus, this spring, Eileen Dickerson of Hornsey Road, London, was married...
...every resident the American government allots one ration card which provides 1,500 calories. This is supplemented by food from Switzerland which brings the daily per capita consumption up to a maximum of 3,000 calories still below the average U.S. standard...
...Ration certain essential items...
...Havana's broad Malecon, sweating drivers pushed automobiles toward service stations and into queues that were sometimes ten blocks long. Desperate motorists waited all night to get their ration of three gallons when gasoline pumps opened in the morning. More than half of Havana's automobiles were garaged for lack of gas. Milk deliveries were cut, taxis almost vanished, and black-market fuel sold as high as $1.20 a gallon...
...Argentina cut the monthly gasoline ration to eight gallons when 10,000 oil company employees started a slowdown...