Word: rationers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voters' list was compiled from identity cards. In the spring of 1943, when these cards were called in for the issue of ration books, Churchill was abroad attending a conference. He was given a new ration book, but someone slipped up on sending his name to the election registrar...
OPAngler. In Miles City, Mont., des perate Fisherman Frank Spears finally put a red ration token on his hook, presently caught a sucker...
Clear the Decks. In Portland, Ore., a woman asked her ration board for ten pounds of canning sugar for her nameless baby, explained: "The baby isn't born yet, but I want to get my canning done before I go to the hospital." Where There's Smoke. In Neosho Rapids, Kan., Farmer Ralph Blank, burn ing trash, watched a plane circle and land in a field nearby. The pilot, a cigaret dangling from his lips, approached and begged a light...
...getting drunk on grappa manufactured in stills made from wrecked airplane parts; reading with vacant eyes the labels on K-ration tins or even German propaganda leaflets, just to be reading...
...June 1, the British Ministry of Fuel and Power had restored the "basic ration" of five imperial gallons of petrol (six U.S. gallons) a month for small cars, seven for big ones. After the outing, Britain's lanes were liberally strewn with carefully preserved, blast-dented vehicles whose engines had broken down or whose tires had given...