Word: rationers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Underworld. In Great Falls, Mont., whoever took Mrs. J. E. Grady's three steaks left 60 red ration points for her on the kitchen table. In Kansas City, whoever made off with S. W. Porter's car got with it a collection of religious tracts and Bibles. In Philadelphia, whoever looted Juggler Walter Burns's car got an assortment of Indian clubs, colored wooden balls, spinning plates, battered hats, trumpet...
Horrors of War. In Phillipsburg, N.J., Seaman Horace A. Smith applied to his ration board for a new "A" gasoline book to replace his old one, then dutifully followed the official regulations and bought an ad in a local paper "LOST-in Mediterranean Sea, 'A' gas ration book...
...growing lands of the south, a thick smoke screen, pungent with reports of short crop and runaway prices, swirled up around the tobacco industry last week. Over the radio, cigaret programs vaguely hinted at a shrinking supply. Newspaper ads pleaded for patience if favorite brands were temporarily exhausted. To ration-wise citizens, all this spelled shortage. But what was behind the smoke...
Swelling synthetic rubber production lulled many a U.S. citizen into the pleasant belief that the rubber-tired nation had rolled safely past the crisis point (TIME, Oct. 18). Last week, OPA's Tire Ration Chief, Sparks Bonnett, jolted them as roughly as a blowout on a curve. Said he: the vise-tight pinch in tires is just beginning...
...married T/4 in our outfit tried to pull a fast one at Widener the other day. He put in a call slip for a government pamphlet, but it didn't go through. It was for "Ration Book Number Three...