Word: rational
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago, on street hoardings and building walls in Vienna, there appeared a slick American poster bearing a message stamped across an Austrian ration card (see cut). The message read: "Sixty percent of your ration is a present from American aid for Austria. The money that you pay for it stays in the country. The Austrian government uses it to help the needy...
...salty Scotsman knows, people who sugar their oatmeal (i.e., the English) have no real appreciation of Bobbie Burns's "halesome parritch." But few Scots were prepared for the blow struck last week against oatmeal. Not only did London ration Scottish oatmeal, but it announced the order in a list concerning sago, tapioca and other plebeian foodstuffs...
...people," said Niall McPherson of Dumfries, "are accustomed to their oatmeal, and they must have it." But the pleas were in vain. Like a stiftnecked English nanny who knows what's best, the Parliament sustained the oatmeal ration...
...pounds of meat a person last year, would be down to 146. This would still be well above prewar. But it would not be enough for the demand. This week Senator Robert Taft told the U.S. to get ready. By spring the nation may have to ration meat...
...That the administration re-establish the pre-war faculty student ration during this transition period...