Word: rations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past several months, the supply of newsprint has tightened and the grey-market price has shot up. Last week, amid rumors of a newsprint shortage, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reluctantly announced: it can't get the paper it needs and will have to ration advertising (old customers served first). Rationing would cut its volume 20% under last year's. Said President George C. Diggers: "We figured we would save some newsprint by consolidating the Sunday papers (TIME, March 27), but we did not save enough to make up for the expansion of the daily Constitution . . . For a while...
North Koreans have reasons for disliking Communism, Lee explains. The Russians stripped the section of plants, machinery, and ration-scarce rice. Also the Russians intend that Korea should not be independent, but belong to the Soviet Union, as one of its republics. Such a Kremlin policy was publicized by the present North Korean foreign minister...
...unlikely occurrence since most of India's 176 million cow population perform the useful function of providing motive power, milk, and dung for fuel. The relatively small number of aged cattle who roam the streets and paths are cared for like beggars by the community. Their meager grass ration is no serious drain on food resources...
Along with her name, Her Royal Highness Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh, three-week-old second-born of Britain's Princess Elizabeth, acquired an identity card, a ration book, a bottle of orange juice and a bottle of cod-liver oil, duly presented by officials from the Westminster food office. Next day, Anne had her first outing, a tour around the garden at Clarence House in a black baby carriage, a hand-me-down from her brother, 22-month-old Prince Charles...
...include political opponents of the Communist Party, criminals serving out their sentences, refugees from eastern countries, and East German workers laid off in other industries. The Reds have recently launched a huge campaign to persuade German workers to "volunteer" for the mines. Workers who refuse may lose their food ration cards...