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...halt. Hungary may have to lay off more than 200,000 workers in the next few months, and unemployment is a major problem in Bulgaria. The breakdown of Hungary's vitally located railroad system has prevented the normal flow of Rumanian oil to Poland, forcing the Poles to ration oil and gas. And poor harvests in Rumania, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria have cruelly pinched already inadequate food production; East Germany, which had hoped to end food rationing in 1957, has dropped the idea...
...Power & the Prize. In London, the Ministry of Fuel and Power soberly accepted a petrol-ration application from Fire-Eater Priscilla Birt, deliberated three weeks, granted her a gallon a month after classifying...
...make music together. During the occupation, they might have been sent to forced labor in Germany-or at least to careers as orchestral musicians, which they felt would also mean oblivion-but for the intervention of the late conservatory director, Claude Delvincourt, who provided them with fake identification and ration cards, got them financial support that allowed them to go on playing as a quartet...
...Greece, which is cutting fuel-oil consumption, will also ration gasoline by the simple expedient of banning all cars with odd-numbered licenses from the road on odd days of the week, all even-numbered cars on even days...
...critic put it). Although she fell ill with pleurisy, she enlisted with the Spanish Loyalists, vowing never to use the gun she was issued. Before she died in England during World War II, she starved herself by refusing, though weak and ill, to eat more than the wartime food ration allotted her countrymen in France...