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...these banks offer two types of employment, executive and clerical. Officials are hired in a ration of one to every five other workers, a very favorable figure from the point of view of the young aspirant for a high position...
...income, to from one to three quarts of hard liquor monthly. If he proves boisterous on his allotment, the vigilant board may reduce his quota, or even lift his book. An unmarried female is usually allowed only one quart of liquor every three months, and loses this ration when she marries...
Last week the portrait was on public view again for the first time in 14 years. The village of Blérancourt, 67 miles northeast of Paris, staged a special show in its Musée de la Coopération Franco-Américaine, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Whistler's death on July 17, 1903, and the Louvre lent the painting for exhibition until this fall. After that. Whistler's famous parent, sitting so gravely and so quietly in her golden frame, will probably be shipped to the U.S.. so that Americans can have another...
...return ration cards to perhaps 2,000,000 who have lost them for such crimes as being "nonproducers," or for being "wealthy...
...addition to the weekly sugar ration...