Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt already had the power to enforce most of this design. Rationing was about to begin on sugar and East Coast gasoline. This week Leon Henderson clamped down the over-all price ceiling: starting May 11 for wholesalers, May 18 for retailers, prices of shoes and sealing wax are frozen at their levels of last March. Rents in almost all cities also come under the ceiling; so do the prices charged by laundries, tailors, auto-repair shops. All merchants will be licensed; retailers must display the ceiling prices in full view. This was regimentation -the first...
...bomber crew forced down on the sea was rescued by tiny aborigines. They took charge of a bombardier from Brawley, Calif., a navigator from Walla Walla, Wash., primitively tended their wounds, fed them coconut and sugar cane until rescue came...
...Occupied France, the Germans had a dapper new high executioner, Prince Josias Waldeck-Pyrmont, 45, whose early enthusiasm for Naziism might have been connected with the failure of his inherited sugar-beet and seltzer-water interests to yield him much money. The Prince became one of the Gestapo's chief pre-war agents in France, and his polished manners persuaded many uncouth Nazis not to scratch their heads with their forks. One of his first acts last week was a decree that hereafter French hostages would be carried on German troop trains, to discourage sabotage...
...citizens cannot legally buy a pound of sugar this week anywhere. Next week they will line up at their schoolhouses for rationing books, and on May 5 a new U.S. era will begin. For the first time, in the land of plenty, a common foodstuff will be doled out on ration coupons: one-half pound a week of sugar for each citizen until the end of June, an undetermined amount after that...
...only bright spot to Harvard quaffers is that there exists a five year supply of whiskey. "Whether rationing will be applied to liquors as well as sugar is indefinite at present," but the general feeling among the Square's dispensers is that it is quite possible...