Word: rationers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life on $1 a Day. But go instead to the house of, say, a streetcar conductor about 10:30 p.m., when most Madrilenos eat dinner. Ask your host, who earns less than $1 a day, to show you his week's ration of food at controlled prices. He can put it in a soup plate. His wife may serve to a guest the best dinner they have had in weeks-soup with meat and noodles, a dish of chickpeas, cabbage and sausage, with an orange for dessert. To buy that meal for four people, he had to spend...
...stupidity. For if the H.A.A. lacked the intelligence to realize that every major collegiate football game since the beginning of the fall has been a near or a complete sell-out, and acted accordingly by limiting ticket applications at the outset, then they should have announced the ticket ration as soon as it became apparent that the game was to be a sell-out. Instead, the H.A.A. chose to wait until the very eve of the game...
...Holy smoke," was the word on the lips of all loyal Indians on the morn of the first Harvard invasion of their territory in half a century. They clenched their fists in anger as they read that Cambridge pranksters had poisoned the squad's candy ration a fight from a "feminine admirer...
...tons of foodstuffs imported by U.S. occupation authorities last summer, many Japanese would have starved. But farmers estimated that the current rice harvest would be 57,000,000 koku* (a koku is just over five bushels). Effective Nov. 1, the Government would increase the daily rice ration to a full pint, highest since the early days...
...Canadian steaks could be eaten only in Canada. Most tourists could not take them across the line into the U.S. Reason: meat is rationed in Canada to one coupon (good for i to 3 Ibs., depending on the bone content) per person per week, and tourists had to stay at least seven days to get ration coupons. Tourists who tried to smuggle in meat were nabbed at customs. (One U.S. citizen who tried to take back $110 worth of meat had to give the meat away.) New York reporters, on meat-hunting assignments in Canada, found "a paradise of pork...