Word: rationers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ceiling Hitter. In New Orleans, shoe rationing officer M. J. Leumas was warned to enforce price ceilings by a woman who protested that while she used to get shoe-ration stamps for 50?, the price had now risen...
...situation looked desperate last week to the National Golf Foundation, which urged a ball-rationing scheme on the 2,200 U.S. golf pros. For each old ball turned in, the golfer would get a ration coupon for future delivery of a reprocessed one. No coupon, no ball. The N.G.F. balefully added: no balls, no golf...
...addition to some vegetables, each adult gets a ration of nine oz. of rice daily (compared to average prewar consumption of 15.52 oz. and a 1941 ration of 11.68 oz.). Unrationed eggplant, salted turnips and radishes help fill empty bellies; the black market flourishes despite strict police control. Clothing is of poor quality and severely rationed. This winter most public buildings are unheated...
Delicacy. In Minneapolis, Ronald Lair handed over $27 and his ration book to a robber, later explained his 24-hour delay in reporting it to the police: "I didn't know who this holdup fellow was, never saw him before, so naturally I didn't know if I should say anything about...
...Food Rationer Walter Straub figures that the tokens will save shopkeepers an annual $35 million worth of time otherwise spent sorting stamps. The American taxpayer, he judges, will save $1.5 million every time a new ration book is not issued...