Word: rations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passport to Pimlico" is a British situational comedy designed quite obviously to humor a British public that is sick of rationing and restrictions. An unexploded German bomb suddenly blows up, revealing a treasure cache in which there is a document proving that the borough of Pimlico in London does not belong to Britain. Consequently, police protection, ration cards and other legal instruments become suspended, and the inhabitants, for a few days, are sovereigns unto themselves. Though Stanley Holloway offers some excellent touches as the exofficio mayor of Pimlico, most of the scenes are only moderately amusing to an American audience...
Britain's election campaign was plodding along, with the eyes of the politicians and voters fixed on medicine shelves and kitchen cupboards. The Labor government's Ministry of Food upped meat rations by 10%; it had already boosted the "sweets" ration from 4 to 4½ ounces of candy a week. Wailed London's Tory Daily Mail: "The glory of Britain has indeed fallen low if the Socialists can buy votes with a rasher [of bacon] and two penn'orth of lollipops...
...already had four factories, built four more. Since it is-privately owned, the company never reports its gross or net. It has an annual payroll of $5,000,000; sales last year mounted to 6,000,000 pairs, four times the prewar level, yet it still has to ration its output to dealers. Last week, Haas was planning to build still more factories-farther east. Like old Levi's Levis, Haas's Levis still bear the familiar boastful trademark-two horses vainly trying to pull apart a pair of pants. Now & then, some waggish farmer actually hitches...
...embarrassed natives of Lake Placid, N.Y. explained that the weather was really unusual. With 130 crack skiers on hand last week to compete in the Fédération Internationale de Ski world championships, there just wasn't any snow. Ice-crushing machines crunched away to give...
...beards, poets, politicians, schoolteachers and generals, the Roman god Mars and France's own Marianne, her bronze face pushed in. Like many more famous works of art, they had been patiently salvaged from Germany after the war by France's conscientious Commission de Récupération Artistique, brought back to Paris, and stored...