Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tighter rationing was back. But even so, U.S. government agencies, surveying civilian prospects for 1945, concluded that U.S. food supplies would be plentiful. Civilians could expect...
Thus, the supply of sugar for civilians in the first ten months of 1944 was reduced to 6,650,000 tons. But civilians swallowed 5,973,000 tons, biting deeply into reserves. Now, reserves are down to 677,000 tons, lowest on record. OPA still hopes to stave off tighter rationing of civilians. But if the cut to industrial users does not save enough sugar, OPA will have to balance its books by either: 1) invalidating all sugar stamps up to a certain date; or 2) reducing the value of stamps which become good henceforth...
Retailers hope that the warm autumn weather is to blame. But when cold weather strikes, the fur industry fears that its suspicion may be confirmed: that U.S. women are beginning to clutch their money a little tighter-that the boom is over...
...expertly preparing the peace-and the Republicans didn't see it coming, balked at preparations for it, and don't really mean their present internationalism. The Republicans said if the President saw the war coming, why didn't he do something about it besides sign tighter neutrality bills passed by a Democratic Congress? The U.S. was very poorly armed. And the President is only making political improvisations about the coming peace. How can any peacemaking be effective when half the Democrats and all the Republicans in Congress distrust the President...
...military program, already taking about a third of the available leather, calls for more leather goods during the last half of 1944 than during the first half. And the leather supply is getting tighter: this year the U.S. will have only between 23 million and 24 million hides for both civilians and armed forces, as against 19 million in 1939 for civilians alone. Shoe rationing may continue long after the end of the German...