Word: rations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea last week, U.S. quartermaster troops faced the problem of pleasing many armies and many stomachs. F-rations, based mainly on rice, were needed in the Kumchon area where the Philippine Republic's 10th Combat Team was carrying out its first combat patrols against bypassed North Koreans. A new M-ration, which, in accordance with Moslem dietary laws, contains no pork, was being distributed to the 5,190-man Turkish brigade soon to join the Filipinos at Kumchon. Regular supplies of tea had to be sent far up Korea's west coast where British and Australian soldiers...
Last week Tito's Yugoslavia went egalitarian. A government decree, effective Nov. 1, closes all special food stores that serve party members and officials. Urban Yugoslav Communists will have to carry ration cards like other city dwellers. Special rest homes and resorts for the elect will be closed. Government agencies are forbidden to buy carpets, curtains, pictures and other items of interior decoration. After Nov. 1, nobody will be able to get free gasoline...
West Berlin's smart antiCommunists, meanwhile, thought up a way to show how little the rigged election represented the real sentiments of East Germans. The West Berliners invited East Berliners to protest against the election by mailing to a West Berlin headquarters the stubs of their September ration cards. At week's end more than 400,000 stubs had poured in, out of a possible 700,000 or so votes in East Berlin...
Last week Tito was tightening the Yugoslav belt. The third of the population which carries ration cards had its bread cut by 10%. The quotas of grain which each peasant community is required to sell to the government were sliced by an overall 43%. Reported U.S. Ambassador George V. Allen to Washington: "There will be serious starvation...
...woman with an easygoing moral sense, but with enough common sense to know that the best thing to do with life is to live it. A Fearful Joy is not topflight Gary; sometimes it reads like a fast imitation of his best writing. But there is still a rich ration of fun in it, and the old Gary feel for the texture and grain of people...