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In the evenings, shop-owners would spend an hour at least gluing the collected "Marken" onto large sheets of paper which they then had to hand in to the appropriate authorities. also created a cut in the amount of rationed bread, meat and fat.
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The cards were printed on strong paper, containing numerous small "Marken" subdivisions printed with their value - for example, from "5 g Butter" to "100 g Butter".
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Every acquisition of rationed goods required an appropriate "Marken", and if a person wished to eat a certain soup at a restaurant, the waiter would take out a pair of scissors and cut off the required items to make the soup and amounts listed on the menu.
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Go back to Rotterdam, the Hauge, Delft … the Zuyder Zee … Volendam, the island of Marken.
john tagliabue | nieuwerkerk aan den ijssel « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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London-based Apax Partners has a long history of investing in the healthcare services sector — portfolio companies include diagnostics business Marken, Indian hospital chain Apollo Hospitals and Capio AB, Sweden-based operator of hospitals and medical centers.
Smiths Group Rejects Bid for Unit Marietta Cauchi 2011
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"Apparently psychologically broken," but also "polite and soft-spoken," the report says, Marken was an easy target for other inmates; Ivan came to his defense and was rewarded with a grim account of his life in the gulag.
A Prisoner's Story 2008
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An examination of documents at PL-350/5, as well as archives pertinent to other camps in the penal colony, turned up 23 people named Marken (or Merken) who had been inmates.
A Prisoner's Story 2008
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He describes the American as a tall, frail and stooped 60-year-old, who had a shaven head, scars on his left shoulder and left forearm and a name tag on his prison uniform identifying him as "Marken, D."
A Prisoner's Story 2008
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Is the old man still alive? he asked, meaning Marken.
A Prisoner's Story 2008
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But since June 10, Ivan has provided U.S. investigators in Moscow with highly detailed accounts of Marken, whom he claims he befriended between 1982 and 1986 while serving as a fellow inmate of PL-350/5.
A Prisoner's Story 2008
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