Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industries receive ration cards for 1 Ib. 9 oz. of bread daily; monthly allotments of if 1¾b. of butter; 4 Ib. 7 oz. of meal; 1 Ib. 2 oz. of sugar; 4 Ib. 14 oz. of meat; 2 Ib. 3 oz. of fish; 14 oz. of salt; 1 oz. of tea. Those doing less heavy work, children and dependents get roughly two-thirds as much. But ration cards cannot provide food when there is none. Doctors estimate that Russians have lost an average of 15 pounds each during the past year. Although bread lines are never mentioned...
...Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee last week attacked China's seemingly impossible problem of inflation and price control. After dozens of schemes were suggested the delegates settled on one: henceforth the general price of all commodities will be in a fixed ratio to the price of salt and rice...
...honor a plaque is hung on the wall stating: "Thomas Jefferson Cowie, Rear Admiral Supply Corps, U. S. Navy. At his insistence, the first attempts to serve a healthily balanced ration in the Navy were made in in 1882 on board the U. S. S. New Hampshire. He banished 'salt horse and cracker bash' from the high seas...
Warning. General Fuller is a military expert; his political remarks should be taken either with a grain of salt or several highballs. The general has been called an admirer of Fascism, was even photographed in the days before the war with the gentleman who has since become Lord Haw-Haw. He drops queer passing remarks, which smack of racism, anti-plutocratism, and other Nazi cliches. Example (explaining the Mexican War): "Since the days of Cortés and his followers the country had been largely bastardized, and the half-caste race resulting had not yet had time to form those...
Since Mormon history is a book in itself, Stegner has concentrated mainly on the civilization and the society that was built up on the banks of the Great Salt Lake. Polygamy played an unimportant part, contrary to popular opinion. The great ideal was a brotherhood and a sharing of worldly goods, built into a simple, ascetically Christian, agricultural life. This was the greatest strength of the Mormon colony. This is what attracted people from Europe and even Hawaii to walk in groups of hundreds and thousands across the country, pushing their few worldly possessions ahead of them in wheelbarrows...