Word: rationers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preoccupation. In Bath, England, Joane Rittner, caught driving without a license, wrote to the court to explain that she neglected to renew her old one, "owing to the following duties: nursing an invalid son and a daughter, cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, queuing, and also grappling with ration books, children's emergency cards, priority milk cards, bread units, laundry, chimney sweeps, window cleaners, all preliminary arrangements prior to moving to a new house, moving to new house, and all necessary preparations for the birth of my fourth child next month...
...because the Government decided that oval ones waste too much paper. In Providence, R. I., stonecutters have refused to cut names into tombstones shipped ready-shaped from Sweden and Finland. And in Britain last week, Food Minister John Strachey told a truly shocked House of Commons that the tea ration might have to be cut, partly because India and Ceylon did not like Government-regulated tea buying...
...about 300 rubles a month (the price of 2 lbs. of smoked sausage). However, the new overlords, i.e., Russian officials, technicians, "Heroes of the Soviet Union," local Communist big shots, get special privileges. They are known as "limit people" (those who receive the top category of limitnaya kartochka, i.e., ration card). Their ration includes 16 lbs. of meat a month, they are assigned special restaurants, special baths (much of the plumbing is dilapidated), special shows and concerts. A current bitter crack in Riga: "All they are waiting for now is special brothels...
Klaus netted an average of 150 marks a day, which might buy a pack of Luckies or all the food on his ration card for one month plus his room rent, or one term's worth of legal training at the University. When professional coal thieves moved in from Hamburg (where competition had grown too heavy and the police too strict), he had a little trouble. The newcomers, working in large groups at freight yards, netted several tons a night and sold them through a central organization at fixed prices. They disliked small-time operators like Klaus, who undersold...
...promise you that if my miners get an extra pound of bacon every week, the increase could be 24,000 tons of coal per day-ten times as much as would be needed to pay for this increased fat ration...