Word: rations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pooling six nations' annual coal outputs, totaling 220 million tons, and their steel production of 38 million tons, by freeing labor to meet manpower supply & demand without passports, by crushing the tight cartels that keep production low and prices high, the Coal-Steel Community could liberate Europeans from ration cards, ersatz clothing, queues and slums. It might also blaze the trail towards a politically united Europe, free of ugly nationalisms, and able to support itself...
When Ike skyrocketed to power and responsibility in World War II, Mamie stayed out of the limelight, and settled down in Washington's Wardman Park Hotel. She sat out the war playing mahjong and pooling meat-ration coupons with seven other war-separated generals' wives. They had dinner together almost every night. Mamie did not take her turn at cooking, but she always washed the dishes. After the war, in New York, Washington, Paris, Mamie stayed on in the background, and her friends predict that if she goes to the White House, she will still avoid the spotlight...
...rains had been kind, and the harvests big. After four parched years, in which discontent grew, 1951 had been a bumper year, and crop prospects were excellent again. Last week Francisco Franco had cheering news for his hard-pressed people: they could throw away the ration cards which they have been using ever since he came to power...
...fortified by an understanding of their plight were the ones best fitted for the jungle-style struggle for survival, in which ethics and conscience are shunted aside and almost lost. Rarely, as an exception to the rule of animal egotism, a group of prisoners would sacrifice part of their ration to give a dying friend a last pleasure. "In those people, I think, some standards of their old superego [conscience] had remained stronger than the influences of the concentration camp," says Dr. Cohen...
...honest, but it's no great discredit if you're dishonest." Everybody helped himself. Senators who had spent half a million buying enough votes to win got their investment back in millions. For the President's congressional pals, there was a $4,000,000-a-month ration from the state lottery pork barrel. Sticky-fingered politicos picked up fortunes on contracts, customs deals, sugar quota allocations...