Word: rationers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...votes against 23,017 for his Tory opponent Frank Taylor. The Conservative appeal in suburban Gravesend, a Tory stronghold until the Labor victory in 1945, had been directed mainly at the housewives. Taylor became known as "Tater Taylor" because he lugged his 3-lb. weekly spud ration around with him on the hustings. The housewives were disgusted enough with shortages,* but not enough of them saw any reason to suppose that Tory M.P.s would furnish more potatoes than Laborites...
...Last week Food Minister John Strachey announced that each Briton could buy an extra 10? worth of meat for Christmas week, over his normal weekly ration of 20? worth. Other Christmas extras: 1½ lbs. of sugar, 4 oz. of candy (normal ration, 4 oz. weekly...
...Impose price ceilings on essential cost-of-living items ("food, clothing, fuel and rent") and basic industrial materials. ¶ Ration basic cost-of-living items "as a preparedness measure." ¶ Prevent wage increases ("although I believe there would be few occasions for its use"). ¶ Extend and strengthen rent controls...
...tunes that the U.S. would be whistling, not only next month, but six months from now, were being put away. Music publishers and recording companies were getting together on "plug schedules" to ration out the hits, a few at a time. By waxing tunes from unreleased movies and upcoming Broadway musicals, there were plenty of songs to go around. At least half a dozen singers and orchestras are scheduled to make recordings of Stravinsky's Summer Moon (TIME, Nov. 3). Popular-music fans might miss a few flash novelties like Open the Door, Richard!, which come from nowhere...
...Since rationing first began, during the war, one item after another has been plucked from the British stewpot until only a mess of boiled potatoes remained. Britons had been eating an average of five to six pounds of potatoes a week, but last week the bottom of the stewpot was beginning to show. Potatoes themselves, the No. 1 staple in the British diet, were rationed-three pounds per week per Briton. "If we'd done nothing," said Food Minister John Strachey, "some time in the spring potatoes would have run out, which would have been a catastrophe." Some British...