Word: rationing
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Astonishment. They were astonished by the great land. Ration-free clothing, modern kitchens, lack of blackouts delighted them. With memories of peaches at $2.25 each and grapes $5.50 a pound behind them, they were stunned by Canada's food supply. They wanted eggs first, then steaks, then ice cream...
...Something and Vinegar Valley Railroad), which serve a dump storing $4 billion worth of U.S. ordnance, were busier than they had ever been. At another similarly large British dump there was a similar bustle. The U.S. Army borrowed the British design for bridges, the British borrowed the U.S. K-ration but substituted condensed tea for coffee...
...Chester Hanford, Dean of Harvard College, yesterday announced that all students formerly living in the Houses who took their ration books home with them over the vacation must deposit these books with the Bursar no later than March...
Ceiling Hitter. In New Orleans, shoe rationing officer M. J. Leumas was warned to enforce price ceilings by a woman who protested that while she used to get shoe-ration stamps for 50?, the price had now risen...
...program whereas the inflation program should be subservient to the food program." Their point is that "the nation has been trying to prevent visible inflation by fixing low ceiling prices, and in so doing has effectively encouraged consumption of highly prized foods." Result: consumers are doing precisely what their ration books have been unable to prevent-they are eating more and better than in years...