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...scarce grew water throughout the English midlands that numerous water-hogging textile mills were forced to shut down for one week provisionally. In London, the Ministry of Health, after advising municipalities to ration their water with "rigid economy," concluded cryptically: "Statistics appear to show that the rainfall in England during the next few years may continue below average...
...amusement purveyor, Mr. Brown will have as assets on hand the Keith-Albee theatre circuit, the F. B. O. Produc tion Co.'s pictures, and the Radio Corpo ration's talking movie, the Photophone...
...called Bratt System of liquor purveying is not "rationing," as is often erroneously supposed. It does not extend to each Swede the privilege of buying a ration equal to his neighbor's. A citizen upon whose police record appear charges of repeated drunkenness, crime, wife beating, or failure to support his children, cannot buy liquor at all in the neat stores of the Swedish Monopoly...
...also at Chicago. Olive-skinned, dark-eyed, they shouted Vivas when they heard Chief Noodle-maker Henry Mueller of New York announce that the average Italian eats four miles of macaroni a year. But they shook their heads dolefully at the pitiful 211 feet which is the per capita ration...
Passed a bill increasing the ration allowance for enlisted men in the Army from 36? per day to 54?; sent it to the Senate...