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...bombs started to drop all around him. After the raiders passed, he returned to his whitewashed cottage. As he opened the back door, a bomb exploded in his front garden and blasted the roof, walls and windows, but he was unharmed. Fred Mitchell, O.B.E., saved a lot of mutton for Britain...
...Britain. William Goodfellow, who is managing director of Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., of Auckland, stated that "about" 24 out of a fleet of 60 refrigerator ships which had plied from New Zealand to Britain via the Panama Canal had been sunk. Said Dairyman Goodfellow: "There are several million carcasses of mutton and lamb [in New Zealand warehouses] awaiting shipment. We also have an excess of 20,000 tons of butter-with a new season's make coming on." The immediate need: 20 refrigerator ships. If Dairyman Goodfellow's case was typical of all of Britain's food-suppliers...
...meat which Britain contracted for six months ago, Britain has been able to move only some 75,000 tons so far. In Patagonia, where storage space is already crammed to capacity, 1,500,000 head of sheep cannot be slaughtered because there are no ships to take the mutton away. Yet soon they must be slaughtered anyway, to keep the rest of the herds from starving...
Since September Britons' weekly price-fixed beef, mutton and pork ration had fallen from two shillings twopence (43?) to one-and-ten (37?), then one-and-six (30?), then one-and-twopence (23?), and finally, last month to one shilling (20?) -enough to buy about a pound of stewing meat. More immediately serious is a shortage of certain minor essentials such as alloy metals, which meant that the British Army was going to have to be satisfied with brittler steel in its tanks...
...physical city tamed too. Gothic extravagance yielded to gracious Georgian façades; Disraeli snorted over London's architectural insipidity. The criminals, the riffraff and the poor were vital; the rest of the nation was one sallow hunk of middle-class mutton. Where berserk bulls had once been a traffic problem, "scorchers" on bicycles were called a public menace. The last gold sovereigns of England sang on the counters of World War I. Most revealing of all was the history of city lighting: after centuries of blackness, a slow, fuliginous dawn of lanterns and dim cressets, then mirrored lamps...