Word: rationing
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...compromise of classes is the King. They have turned the rose beds at Windsor Castle into vegetable gardens. Queen Elizabeth practices sharpshooting. George VI, King of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, dodges bombs, eats by ration card, works some 20 hours a day. He is Defender of the Faith in a deeper sense, says Author Kraus, "than his ancestors and predecessors in a thousand years of British Monarchy." For "the war has transformed King and nation alike. . . . He is not only the noblest of reformed Englishmen...
...queues that used to form in front of banks, food and kerosene stores were gone, and though ration cards were issued for food, clothing and manufactured goods, Moscow's stores were generally better stocked than they had been before the war began. Furthermore, rationing only applied in Moscow and Leningrad. It seemed obvious that the Soviet Government had released some of its reputedly enormous food reserve...
...Atlantic States voluntarily to cut gasoline consumption one-third. To see how voluntary reduction works, Ickes also asked 19 large oil retailers to compile weekly retail-sales reports. Hot-headed Harold Ickes will get even hotter if the figures show the noncompliance everyone expects. Probable upshot: gasoline ration cards (or a reasonable facsimile) by fall...
...check on how efficiently their tankers are being used. Officially, they think the U.S. might look elsewhere for tankers. In a report issued two months ago (TIME, July 7), they pointed to a score of German, Italian and Danish tankers rusting in Latin-American ports. But when the ration cards are handed out, millions of irate motorists may begin shouting for use of these ships...
...tails or jackets. In addition, new boys may continue to wear at Eton the overcoat, shoes, grey flannel trousers, football boots and fives clothes which they already possess. The Eton tailors have a large quantity of second-hand tail coats, jackets, waistcoats and trousers which can be purchased without [ration] coupons at small cost. The use of these will help to conserve existing supplies of cloth and clothes...