Word: rationality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue had been sold; a half hour later, the issue was sold-and oversubscribed. Dozens of other slow-moving issues disappeared completely into investment portfolios during the bond market's hectic day. The rush to buy became so great that some underwriting syndicates were forced to ration their bonds by confining allotments to members...
...bosses were furious, astonished. Even victorious France and Britain were maintaining stiff controls to ration their meager austerity. From existing legal supplies each West German could expect to get one pair of shorts every 18 years, one pair of socks every 29 years, a suit every 98 years. "How dare you relax our rationing system when you have a shortage of goods?" raged one officer. Replied Erhard jubilantly: "I have not relaxed rationing; I have abolished it." To his countrymen he proclaimed: "The only ration ticket now is the mark." He asked for an interview with U.S. General Lucius Clay...
...Britain's ruling Conservatives the overriding issue clearly continued to be the control of the country's climbing inflation. Prime Minister Macmillan, recalling "how eagerly we queued for a bit of off-ration offal" during "six years of Socialist restriction," proclaimed that the difference was that Conservatives believed the state was made for man and not man for the state...
...tuberculosis. His squad leader tells him to go back to the hospital-which has kicked him out after three days-and if he is not readmitted he is to use his last grenade to commit suicide and carry out "your final duty to your country." Taking his final ration of six raw potatoes, Tamura sets off. Aware that the hospital will not take him in, he lies on the ground with others who have been turned away; later he strikes off on his own, and almost at once he begins to starve. He sees coconut trees laden with fruit...
...officer, then as a resistance fighter parachuted into France from Britain. During the invasion of Normandy he was dropped behind the German lines to organize sabotage, was severely wounded, ended the war with the rank of colonel and a chestful of medals, including the Compaction de la Libération (held by only 600 living Frenchmen). A Deputy since 1946. he has served in a dozen Cabinets, holding such portfolios as Finance. Interior and Defense. A strong pro-European who quit the Mendés-France Cabinet in 1954 after the defeat of EDC, he has been fighting Mend...