Word: rationers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France consumes 7,000,000 tons of wheat each year, usually grows 6,700,000 tons of it herself. This year drought cut the French yield to 3,300,000 tons. Without dollars to buy wheat abroad, Frenchmen will have little bread, their basic food. The bread ration has already been cut to 200 grams a day (75 grams lower than the lowest ration during the German occupation). Probable November level: 150 grams (less than four average U.S. slices) daily...
Buckwheat is highly suspect these days in Britain because it is off the ration and fetches the highest grain price as a scarce and valuable food for poultry, pigs and cattle. At the current price level (80 shillings per 56-lb. sack), Dennis had nearly ?3,000 worth in his 20-acre field. He could not use it all for his 200 chickens and herd of pigs. Was he flouting the County Agricultural Committee's orders so that he could sell the buckwheat in the black market...
Chairman: Four thousand calories a day, four weeks' vacation a year and enough food for our families to fill the ration which they are supposed to get-1,500 calories...
...basic gasoline ration was canceled last week bringing nearly a million pleasure cars to a quick stop. Britons were forbidden to travel abroad for pleasure and 30,000 vacation trips to Switzerland were promptly cancelled. At Buckingham Palace, all plans for an overseas honeymoon for Princess Elizabeth were hastily dropped...
...ration the dollars she has left for world trade, Great Britain yesterday imposed a tight control over the remainder of the $3,750,000,000 loan from the U.S. Nations' Assembly September 16 when the U.S. yesterday referred it to Secretary of State Marshall yesterday told the Inter-American Conference in Rio de Janeiro that "the economic rehabilitation of Europe is vital to the economy of this hemisphere...