rationing

The trade body said that was about half of that produced in 1990 and similar to production levels seen when rationing was still in place following the World War Two.

They had enough provisions to last 150 days, but Lachlan said they started rationing their supplies in the final few weeks just in case of further delays in reaching Australia.

For a while, I was rationing out my friend Taffy Akner’s last book, “Long Island Compromise.”

Their characters inject so much energy into the movie that Boyle and Garland seem to be rationing their best material as strictly as Spike denies himself that slice of pork.

Around the same time, the bathing suit business took off, as war-time fabric rationing lifted and the culture shifted to allow less modesty and more playful expression.