Sentence examples for meat ration from inspiring English sources

The meat ration was reduced; the government compensated with imports of whale meat and a tinned fish called snoek.

He discovered that the prisoners were being cheated of their legal daily meat ration, and he encouraged them to refuse the food.

To solve the problem, parents sent their children to buy the twenty-fen meat, a very thin slice cut from the pig's underbelly, which did not count as part of the meat ration.

Sandwich consumption rose during the Depression-"You can put anything in a sandwich and it will fill you up," Smith says-before losing out to hamburgers when meat rationing ended after the Second World War.

This year, the problem is the zoo: the zoo-keepers survived the dark years of the mid-1990s by snaffling the lions' meat rations and feeding some of the weaker creatures to the carnivores.

Sandwich consumption rose during the Depression-"You can put anything in a sandwich and it will fill you up," Smith says-before losing out to hamburgers when meat rationing ended after the Second World War..

Like anyone else hanging on by a thread, she has no need for advice on not leaving her computer on standby, cutting down on red meat, rationing her fuel use, saving electricity, buying recycled clothes and "flying less".

Meat rationing wouldn't officially end until 1954, and yet here were the Tibetans, paying a visit to the nation and offering what can only have been a way out: what else would they be offering?

They basically tapped into the public's postwar weariness about inflation (20percentt), housing shortages, meat rationing, and labor strife – all of which became identified with the Democrats, who had ruled Congress and the White House for the past 13 years.

They have been looking at processes such as osmotic dehydration (which they use to create meat rations that taste like deli cold cuts) to prolong the life of bakery items, but without success so far.

Galland began to hunt for the family and traded the kills in the local markets to supplement meagre meat rations.