Word: rationers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pier F in Jersey City, the repatriated Americans got off the Red Cross exchange ship Gripsholm, and the community of fate dissolved into 1,223 individual owners of 1,223 individual ration books...
...Ration Point. In Chicago, William H. Jones looked out his window, saw his dog frozen on point, followed directions, found a hole in the ground, dug up a pound of butter...
...Zealand supplied so much clothing to U.S. soldiers that she was forced to ration civilians to less than one full outfit per year...
...strained transport system. In contrast to industry, Germany's food situation is better than it was last year. The 1943 grain harvest in Europe was good, and the Nazis meant every word of their boast that Germany would eat if all Europe had to starve. The German bread ration was recently increased. Yet the black market continues to flourish. One of Germany's sorest shortages is in housing. Nazi figures admit that 6,953,000 people (about 9% of the prewar population) have been bombed out or evacuated. Labor Chief Robert Ley said last week that bombs...
Since tight food rationing began last spring, the small Dixie Market in little Ypsilanti, Mich. (1940 pop. 12,000), hard by the Willow Run bomber plant, has done a big city business. For 10½| hours a day, seven clerks hustle to fill the grocery orders of the 4,000 customers who jam-pack the store every week. Yet the store has never collected a ration stamp from a customer. For the Dixie Market deals only in unrationed groceries...