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...Italy the connection between UNRRA aid and the kind of politics that is played for keeps was clearer than in most other countries. When LaGuardia told Premier Alcide de.Gasperi that world food prospects did not justify a recent increase in the bread ration. De Gasperi and his Christian Democratic colleagues made speeches emphasizing the relation between living standards and the Communist campaign to discredit democracy...
...greatly touched by such kindness coming from our American friends, and in thanking you today, I should like to express my deepest gratitude to you and to the students who sacrificed a part of their food ration for our benefit...
...miss. His new musical comedy Big Ben opened in London, and was a solid hit. Earlier the same night Herbert had told his family: "I think we're going to be burgled tonight." Another hit. Home from the theater, the Herberts found their apartment rifled of ration books, gas coupons, radio, clock, Mrs. Herbert's jewels, her leopard coat...
...chow line. The simplest method would be to allow interhouse slips to be signed for any guest with an eating contract any place in the University, but if Lehman Hall found this created too much confusion, the dining hall cards to be distributed next fall could be printed like ration cards with space to punch a limited number of meals in the dining halls of the other schools...
...will come some day. What added heat to her anger was the fact that she had only wanted to do what the free-trading U.S. is doing with Cuba-i.e., buying her sugar crop at a guaranteed price below the world price. And Britain, which was forced to ration bread last week for the first time in her history, was angry because she will have to pay more for her daily bread...