Word: rations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cars, tailors cannot get enough cutters to meet the tremendous demand for new suits, bookings for expensive continental holidays are the highest ever. Only in the past four years have the British enjoyed the kind of widely distributed prosperity that the U.S. has enjoyed for 15, and after ration-book austerity, the heady delights of TV sets, washers and new cars are an intoxicating experience...
...actual tons and a volume within hollering distance of the 2,525,000-ton alltime peak set in December 1956. As customers hurried to build up depleted inventories and hedge against the threat of a strike or higher prices in July, some mills even began to ration short products on an informal basis. Steelmen expect the big demand to run through the second quarter at least, make it the biggest in steel's history...
...peaceful invasion, though the islands' simple economy of coir (coconut fiber) and dried fish was totally disrupted by the British arrival. (Also disrupted was the domestic economy of Ceylonese housewives who regard Maldivian fish as an indispensable ingredient of curry, are now limited to a monthly ration of eight ounces per adult.) Gan's schoolteachers quit their jobs to sign on as high-paid laborers on the base, joining the 1,200 workmen imported from Pakistan. A Maldivian official sent from the capital island of Male to persuade the people of Gan to go back to their proper...
...great leap was .accompanied by a mighty fumble. Last month, despite a claimed 102% increase in staple food crops, the grain ration was cut in China's cities and the lowly cabbage was put on the ration list for the first time. Since then, laundry soap has been added to the list and the monthly sugar ration has been slashed to slightly more than half a pound per person. In the great port of Canton there is a shortage of fish; in Shanghai, meat is all but unobtainable...
...Westerner recently returned from Peking suggests another reason for the paradox of record crops and ration cuts. He reported that the citizens of Peking, fearing the day when they will be herded into people's communes, have started hoarding food and gorging themselves in the city's renowned restaurants. By withholding food, the Reds are squeezing the city dweller into the communal mess hall. "When the private food hoards are gone and people cannot buy much on the local markets," the Western visitor reported, "they will be forced to eat in the community kitchens...