Word: replenishment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baylor University Hospital blood bank in Dallas has been generous to Billy. Since September it has given him 227 pints of plasma. Last week, its blood bank dangerously depleted, the hospital decided it could allow the little boy no more blood unless donors would give enough blood to replenish its bank...
...tremendous was the momentum of the Red drive that at any moment the retreat could become a rout. By all rules of war and logic the Red Army needed time to rest, replenish supplies, restore communications. But it might well have reserves of hidden strength enabling it to press its attack without a respite...
...banks that struggle to keep track of some 18 billion ration points a month got a well-earned boost last week. For eight months they have operated "checking accounts" for U.S. retailers, who deposit their ration coupons periodically, then draw upon them to replenish their stocks. But although OPA is paying the banks some $12,000,000 a year for their pains, most of them arestill losing money on their deal with the Government. Last week, therefore, OPA raised their fees for opening and handling accounts by about 25%, to somewhere nearer the break-even point for the average bank...
Housewife to Wholesaler. As expounded by OPA, point rationing sounds easy: 1) The Government issues ration books and stamps to the public, and assigns specific point values to foods. 2) The housewife turns the stamps over to the grocer in exchange for goods, and the grocer, in order to replenish his stocks, sends the stamps along to the wholesaler. 3) The wholesaler turns these coupons over to his bank (where they are eventually destroyed) and gives him credit for the number of points they represent. 4) With this credit the wholesaler draws a check in favor of the canner...
...carefully as dollars and cents, made up special ration-banking statements for the depositors and OPA. Bank guards deposited the coupons in the bank's vaults, from which they will be removed and burned by officials at two-week intervals to prevent a huge paper accumulation. To replenish their stocks of merchandise, depositors began to write the first of many U.S. ration checks...