Word: rationalize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soviet cities the State zagged by taking off the ration list Russia's beloved tea & cigarets, also milk, eggs, cheese, canned goods (except canned meat), candy, soap and knitted goods...
...Still rationed (purchasable only on presentation of a card) are bread, flour, meat, oil, gruel, sugar and Russia's beloved butter & herring. Men's clothing was not taken off the ration list, but the ration per man per year was increased...
...Women may be allowed to accompany troops as laundresses in numbers not exceeding four to a company. . . . Laundresses shall be entitled to receive one ration daily...
Since early in the fall, the bread ration cards have been abolished and new stores have been opened everywhere. The open market, strictly prohibited by early communistic practice, is now being tolerated, and thus a wider list of commodities is available to the Russians. Likewise the handicraft workers, put out of business by the Socialists in 1928, are again allowed to contribute to the market. "This indicates a slight concession to private initiative," Professor Hopper explained. "The general trend is to increased production of consumer's goods, rather than to manufacture for the state...
...flashlights, emerged with his grey felt hat battered out of shape by low beams. In the centre of the gun-deck President Hoover stopped to gaze at a brassbound barrel marked: GROG TUB. Commander Louis Gulliver explained that from it used to come the sailors' daily ration of a half-pint of strong drink. The President nodded, passed on silently...