Word: rationers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gettysburg, Pa., Fannie Rager tried & tried to fill out a ration-application blank, finally hanged herself...
...Texas reporter, Mark Miller, wanted to show up the administrative weaknesses of OPA's gasoline-rationing program. He set out with no ration coupons at all, and made a 2,000-mile border-to-border auto trip (Brownsville, Tex. to International Falls, Minn.). He used 123 gallons of bootlegged gas, bought extra ration coupons for 190 gallons besides. In the Oct. 2 issue of Collier's he told the whole tale...
...monsters promptly clapped the petulant Patriarch into jail. But none of this persecution made much change in the ingrained Christian faith of Russia's mystically minded millions of believers. Believers who harbored priests or attended worship might be deprived of their ration tickets, their jobs or might just disappear into jails or subArctic exile. They might not come together at all unless 20 believers risked registering with the local Soviet and received permission to worship. Still they came together for worship...
...over the U.S. Magazine publishers were beginning to ration subscriptions in a big way. Examples: Hearst magazines (Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, etc.) now accept no new subscriptions, will take only renewals. McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., publishers of 26 trade journals (American Machinist, Aviation, Business Week, Electronics, etc.), will accept only enough new subscriptions to replace subscribers who fail to renew. Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal) still accepts one-year subscriptions by mail, but solicitors take them only for two years or more...
Civilians can pick up their ration books at Lehman Hall for use during the week of vacation, it was announced by Aldrich Durant, Business Manager. Members of the V-12 unit can obtain rations of food and gasoline by applying to the local ration board...