Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that mood they heard Crookshank, who is chairman of the Tory Party food committee, tear into them. He pointed out that in 1938 inmates of workhouses got three times as much meat as the maximum ration today. Laborites writhed as he ticked off some of the sources from which Britain's meat now comes: "Cargoes of goats arriving at Hull . . . reindeer meat from Lapland . . ." The Tory benches roared when he exposed "a considerable [government] export scheme of English meat to the U.S. ... Canada and-the Argentine!" Cried Crookshank: "In a world under Socialist administration, the U.S. sends coal...
Heroine in Teddington. The vote did not still the clamorous disgust of the country. Even what little meat was available caused trouble. Miss Mary Olive D'Oyly, for 14 years a butcher in working-class Teddington, 93 miles from London, bustled angrily to Westminster with 32 housewife customers to see her M.P. On a previous visit she had taken a leg of ewe mutton. It was so fat, she complained, that nobody would...
...Master of the Worshipful Company of Butchers applauded Miss D'Oyly: "Your courage is a lesson to us men . . ." Added the British Housewives' League: "How brave of you to take that dreadful ewe meat to the House of Commons...
...along through the Great Muddle. The nation had survived far greater crises. The unique feature of this one was that it seemed to have no focus, no great principle at stake, no end. If the clamor got too great, Attlee could always jettison Webb and agree to the Argentine meat price. Socialism was an admirable instrument for rationing discomfort and deadening pain...
During World War II, most U.S. meat disappeared into black markets. It was spirited there by a horde of fly-by-night operators who popped up so fast that the number of licensed slaughterers mushroomed from 4,500 to 20,000. "This time," said Price Boss Mike DiSalle last week, "we're going to stop the black markets before they start...