That night, the troops ate their iron rations (carried by the men as emergency rations), and some found shelter from the miserable conditions in a big monastery and sanatorium.
Holly is fairly resistant to cattle and deer, indeed it was deliberately planted because its foliage was cut as iron rations for deer and other stock in winter.
He said iron rations were stored for use only in great emergency.
They are our iron rations.
The houses are simply furnished, and on the shelves is food, in the form of iron rations, waiting for the family.
My second point concerns the provision of reserves of iron rations at certain defended points.
