Word: rationing
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During 8½ years, to be exact, Grocer Brown and his fellow food merchants in Britain had snipped their scissors at some 68 billion pesky, elusive food coupons in the ration books of Britain's housewives, stored them in little tins to send to the Food Ministry at the end of each month. Each year they had filled out 20 million official forms. At 5:02 p.m. one day last week the Ministry called a halt to the point system. Formerly, a housewife had to decide how to divide her points between canned fish and fruit, molasses, rice, jellies...
...Winnipeg, safe on relatively high ground. The city auditorium was turned into a dormitory. If the situation worsened drastically, Morton had a master plan for compulsory evacuation, under martial law, of as much as 75% of the city's 320,000 population. Food was stockpiled; emergency passes and ration cards were printed...
...list: pledges not to accept bribes, obtain false ration cards, travel on trains without tickets, forge signatures, commit abortion or arson. The disciples also promised not to adulterate milk with water, or flour with powdered stone, and "not to tell a lie to marry off one's daughters . . . for example, not to tell about a blind girl that she has eyesight...
...Government-controlled, but distinguished from the ration-book stores, which sell at lower prices, in driblets...
Bananas & Beefsteak. As the cheers died away in Manhattan at the week's end, Anna's parents, who have been her only teachers, said they were determined to protect her youthful voice, carefully ration her performances despite the movie, recording and personal-appearance offers that 'were sure to roll...