Word: daltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band of infuriated housewives should force Mr. Dalton [Hugh Dalton, Board of Trade president, clothing rationing boss and hence Minister in charge of corsets] into a utility corset and a pair of the best-fitting utility stockings he can buy. I would add a saucy black felt hat for which he had to pay four guineas [$16.80] and a pair of those ghastly wooden-soled shoes...
...Wright got action. Mr. Dalton's Board announced release of enough steel to make 1,750,000 corsets. But the Corset Advisory Board warned British women that new corsets are not just around the corner. The Board (nine middle-aged men) proposed to spend all summer inspecting and approving models...
Last summer, Hugh Dalton, president of the Board of Trade, called in pioneer industrial art designer Charles Tennyson, grandson of the Poet Laureate, appointed him chairman of an advisory committee. The committee included architects, social workers, furniture manufacturers, designers, and one working-class housewife...
...Though 775,000 babies were born last year, only 300,000 prams (baby carriages) were made. Here British parents won their first victory: after a wave of protest, Board of Trade President Hugh Dalton agreed to permit 325,000 prams to be manufactured this year...
England's well-groomed Board of Trade President Hugh Dalton, who had sworn not to buy a new suit for the duration, urged his fellow Britons to go collarless, tieless, sockless through the summer, said he himself would not hesitate to attend the House of Commons with a naked neck. "Men are a great problem" he decided. "They are too conservative...