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...Captain Oliver Lyttelton, Britain's political and economic coordinator in the Middle East, flew to London for consultations...
Most people, however, took the rationing with great good humor, plotted how to include unrationed tablecloths, drapes, narrow ribbons in their couture. Looking forward to the worn ensembles, shiny elbows and frayed cuffs of the future, President Oliver Lyttelton of the Board of Trade sugar-coated the pill: "I know all the women will look smart. We men may look shabby. If we do, we mustn't be ashamed...
Last week's Government plans were announced by spruce, aristocratic Captain Oliver Lyttelton, President of the Board of Trade. For months Britain has cut the production of consumers' goods by price controls, taxes, limitations on supplies, propaganda. The aim has been to free labor for war industries, prevent inflation, encourage investment in war securities as against general spending. As a result most consumers'-goods industries have recently worked only part time, often at as little as 20% of capacity. Last week Captain Lyttelton pointed out that these part-time operations were eating up the factories' working...
...output would be allocated on the priority basis of: 1) a maximum for exports; 2) an adequacy for Government needs; 3) a minimum for domestic, civilian needs. Captain Lyttelton warned that the industries in question and their workers would be given five months to reach agreements with the Government, that where agreements had not been reached by that time the Government would do whatever it wanted...
...Succeeding Morrison in the key post of Minister of Supply was cold, shrewd Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Iron and Steel Federation, who moved up from Presidency of the Board of Trade. Into the Board of Trade went handsomely mustached Captain Oliver Lyttelton, who, before the war, was managing director of British Metal Corp. and held enough other directorates-including one with the German Metallgesellschaft A.-G.-to bring in ?20,000 in annual fees. Viscount Caldecote, who as Sir Thomas Inskip did more to prevent changes in the Anglican prayer book than...