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The following is to be considered as a full weekly Ration, which is issued from the stores whenever there is a sufficiency without a prospect of want, to those who are in the employ of government: -- Seven pounds of salt beef, or four pounds of salt pork; eight pounds of flour or meal, or an addition of a quarter of a pound of wheat to each pound, if it cannot be ground; pease or other pulse, three pounds; six ounces of sugar in lieu of butter.
The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) David Dickinson Mann
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The 30-second spot then claims Obama is now "pushing a risky health care plan that would: Cut Medicare; Raise taxes; Ration care; And explode the deficit."
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Thanks to them I don't have a Ration Book any more, and Mr Bevan's work as Health Secretary means I'll soon have the NHS to look after me in my old age .
Archive 2009-05-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Thanks to them I don't have a Ration Book any more, and Mr Bevan's work as Health Secretary means I'll soon have the NHS to look after me in my old age .
Who still votes Labour - and why? Dungeekin 2009
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He retrieved a HotMeal Ration from his pack and activated the chemical heater.
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Ration Health Care, you can't have any, but we can
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Ration mamograms and pay for abortions ... both have the end result of people dying.
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Obama claims this Health Ration Bill won't include illegals.
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Ration how many times people can go to Starbucks, and the money saved sent to the USO.
Obey questions Afghan war, explains his war tax proposal 2009
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Ration books, a relic of age-old communism that most Cubans used to buy goods, were just eliminated by Raul Castro this past April.
Lili Boyle: An American Girl in Cuba Lili Boyle 2012
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