Word: rationer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clamp down on the dirty dives; let's crack down harder on drunken drivers; let's ration our remaining supply of drinkables. And let's quit arguing over prohibition till the war is won and the boys are home to discuss...
Leon Henderson tried desperately to pour oil on troubled waters: he pointed out that normal consumption is 13 Ib. a year, argued that a ration of one pound every five weeks would not be so bad. (He did not point out that his statistics were based on total population, including adults who do not drink coffee and children under 15, who will get none under rationing.) But every coffee drinker knew that one cup a day represented a drastic cut. The panic buying went on, with no signs of stopping until shelves were bare. In some places anti-hoarders even...
...question now was whether retailers would have enough stocks left by Nov. 29 to supply holders of ration tickets. To many a grocer, it looked as if WPB would have to abandon its 65% roasting ceiling for a while-something that WPB has thus far flatly refused to do. Certainly something must give: if the start of rationing finds many citizens unable to use their ration tickets, the coffee comedy will cease to be funny. Such a failure might endanger the whole principle of rationing-which the people have accepted wholeheartedly thus...
Price Boss Leon Henderson said he had announced the rationing in advance to forestall "more confusion and hysteria than even now exists on the subject of coffee." Coffee sales will be completely halted for a week before rationing begins. Then sugar ration stamp No. 28 will become coffee ration stamp...
Hollandsche Biefstuk. The proprietor of the Restaurant Royal in The Hague, where Hollandsche Biefstuk was a specialty, used to say: "My patrons eat me poor and drink me rich." They drank him rich no more. Holland's food ration was cut as winter approached. The Nazis announced that all men capable of bearing arms would be conscripted for service in Germany ("Dutchmen must not only work with their hands, they must also use weapons to guard Europe"). To enforce their decree the Nazis said that Dutch parents "who do not collaborate in the new order will have their children...