Word: rationer
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...Service at Enfield, Middlesex) could not buy diapers in quantity in England because the mills were then subsidized to make other kinds of cheap piece goods ... So she went shopping in the guise of an expectant mother . . . When clerks asked for her "green card" (a mother's special ration book), she just looked more pregnant. Anyway, despite all the government could do, she's in business...
...felt the pressure sooner than most because his six husky youngsters could eat their way through hi $240-a-month pay envelope quicker than a horde of grasshoppers could clean an alfalfa field. During the first month he had been forced to cut out the weekly ration of 28 quarts of milk, and cut down the weekly six dozen eggs. Later, Tom himself began eating breakfast and lunch regularly at Local 961's strike kitchen, then tried to go easy when he sat down with the family to their meatless dinners...
...Passport to Pimlico" is a British situational comedy designed quite obviously to humor a British public that is sick of rationing and restrictions. An unexploded German bomb suddenly blows up, revealing a treasure cache in which there is a document proving that the borough of Pimlico in London does not belong to Britain. Consequently, police protection, ration cards and other legal instruments become suspended, and the inhabitants, for a few days, are sovereigns unto themselves. Though Stanley Holloway offers some excellent touches as the exofficio mayor of Pimlico, most of the scenes are only moderately amusing to an American audience...
Britain's election campaign was plodding along, with the eyes of the politicians and voters fixed on medicine shelves and kitchen cupboards. The Labor government's Ministry of Food upped meat rations by 10%; it had already boosted the "sweets" ration from 4 to 4½ ounces of candy a week. Wailed London's Tory Daily Mail: "The glory of Britain has indeed fallen low if the Socialists can buy votes with a rasher [of bacon] and two penn'orth of lollipops...
...already had four factories, built four more. Since it is-privately owned, the company never reports its gross or net. It has an annual payroll of $5,000,000; sales last year mounted to 6,000,000 pairs, four times the prewar level, yet it still has to ration its output to dealers. Last week, Haas was planning to build still more factories-farther east. Like old Levi's Levis, Haas's Levis still bear the familiar boastful trademark-two horses vainly trying to pull apart a pair of pants. Now & then, some waggish farmer actually hitches...