Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans got a good look at each other last week as they all stood in line in the country's schoolrooms and firehouses, waiting for their sugar-rationing cards...
...first U.S. experience with regimentation went well. With unlimited chance to cheat, there was little cheating. Several millions admitted hoarded sugar, had stamps subtracted or got no cards at all. News of the first week of U.S. rations...
...Milwaukee, Fobes Ormsby Henderveld de Kaul-a cow called Mooie for short-received an allotment of one pound of sugar a day under the "Illness of Consumer" clause, because her owner, Farmer Harry Goebel, had a veterinary's certificate prescribing one pound of brown sugar daily, the only cure for Mooie's temporary insanity...
...biggest hoard was 15,000 Ib. by a New Jersey electrician who filled a warehouse with sugar two years ago. His wife can get none of his sugar and no ration cards until he disposes of his 577-year supply...
Without doubt the British have born the brunt of the whispering campaign. Almost every frustration which the American have undergone in the last month has been laid at their door. For example, the sugar shortage, tire and gas rationing, and the shortage of tankers for oil transport were all attributed to the British. Every military reverse has similarity been alleged the result of British incompetency or worse. They seem to qualify as the number one scapegoat...