Word: rationalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shareholders, and to the Government all surplus profits-totaling some 112,000,000 kroner ($30,000,000) annually. Because of the easygoing temper of the people, the "Bratt system" has occasioned little friction, has reduced the consumption of alcohol 50% in such cities as Stockholm, and appears to ration out alcohol in just sufficient quantities to make smuggling unprofitable. This "golden mean" of Swedish "regulation" contrasts sharply with Norwegian "prohibition" of all liquors of more than 45% alcoholic content. In Norway, though wines and beers are at everyone's disposal, the smuggling in of hard liquor by German speedboats...
Millions of pounds of tinned bacon ("sowbelly") went overseas, a welcome substitute for the "monkey meat" ("canned willie," corn beef), welcome substitute for the "frigo" (frozen beef), welcome substitute for the sloppy, though nourishing slumgullion ' of the ration. This bacon was not so neatly packed, so elegantly handled as was the civilian product yet it was clean, wholesome, nourishing. Fragrant, crisp, dripping grease, on thick white bread and with a canteen cup full of hot coffee-"Bring on your...
...sense of the mysterious, shadowy glory of the play and its production can be translated in these brief sentences. The sorrow of centuries and the majesty of a great ration are prisoned in the tiny theatre. And strangely enough Mary Ellis, once original prima donna of the highly colored, highly contemporary musical comedy, Rose-Marie, is the leading actress, giving a performance for which a playwright prays...
...about 14,000 bachelor's degrees were conferred. In 1910, 22,687 degrees. In 1920, 38,552. In 1922, 47,854. In 1924, about 76,000. In 1900, the colleges graduated one person for every 5,400 of the country's population. In 1910. the ration...
...Washington, D. C, 24 carrier pigeons were prepared for an Arctic expedition to accompany Explorer MacMillan polewards (TIME, Apr. 20, AERONAUTICS ; see also Page 20) in June. Although denied all other luxuries, the birds, passionately addicted to tobacco, were provided with "an ample chewing ration...