Word: rations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours after he became Secretary of Defense, but he could not see any solution if U.S. troops were to continue to be the world's best supplied, best cared for and best fed. Said Marshall reminiscently: "Our services are too luxurious. I was raised on a 16? ration, no chicken, no turkey and no butter. If there was any, by the time I got it, it was melted...
...laughing crowds in London's Piccadilly Circus, restored to its prewar dazzle only 18 months ago, gave a full-throated rendition of Auld Lang Syne. The New Year did not stay welcome for long. Last week, with housewives grousing over the latest cut in the meat ration (eight ounces to four ounces weekly), Piccadilly's neon lights were doused by a coal shortage...
...hardly had time to draw a deep breath after his third inaugural before he gave the state a breath-taking demand for emergency powers in case of atomic attack or invasion. Dewey wanted stand-by authority to: make law by proclamation, seize private homes and property, conscript manpower, ration raw materials and finished goods, set up constructions priorities, fire any public officer who refused to obey his order (including mayors and police chiefs). This was not exactly martial law, an aide explained, because the Army would not be in charge, and injured citizens would still have recourse to the courts...
...ridiculous, she agonized through a short life of 34 years and died in 1943 in a gesture that seemed to typify her gift for futile heroics. She virtually starved herself to death in England by refusing, though she was weak and ill, to eat more than the wartime ration for her native France...
...Must Go Up. By spring, autos were in such demand that customers again had to wait as long as three months for delivery. Makers of TV sets and refrigerators began to ration their output. By June the economy was at the highest production peak it had ever been in peacetime. Industrial production had climbed to 199 in the Federal Reserve Board's index (1935-39 = 100), four points higher than 1948's boomtime top. Employment rose almost 2,000,000 in a single month. In mid-June, the stock market officially blessed the new growth of the boom...