Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporting these accomplishments to the House of Commons last week, Minister Hudson might have sounded gratified. Instead, he sounded urgent. Wheat acreage must be expanded by another 600,000 acres, said he. There must be a 10% increase in the potato crop, more milk. There must be farming by moonlight to get the job done. To save ships, Britain's green earth would have to provide more food for the factory canteens, more food for Allied mess plates...
Drew's first blast at the commission report on June 5 led to the Government charging him with sedition. Then the Government dropped the charge, as the hottest political potato picked up in years. Still mad, Colonel Drew wrote a 32-page criticism of the commission report. He sent one copy to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie ("Wee Willie") King, other copies to leaders of the Conservative, Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and Social Credit parties in the House of Commons. A copy also went to the Canadian press, which sent it out to member papers marked "Hold for Release...
...British correspondents seeking crumbs of information, and satisfying their thirst. Their uniforms comprise as strange a collection as the officers'. About the only women at Shepheard's are WAASies (Woman's Auxiliary Army Service). Trim uniformed and exceptionally attractive, they drink only lemonade and feed potato chips to the little birds which romp around the floor...
...users hot & bothered months ago, was no longer a worry last week. Reason: cotton-and paper-bag production had zoomed fast enough to plug the entire gap. Cotton bags are just as good as burlap; the only catch is that they cost 10-25% more (17? for a cotton potato bag v. 15? for burlap...
...spry, horse-loving Baron Portsea was born 82 years ago on the little island of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands. All the members of his family live there now, with 50,000 other British subjects, under Nazi overlords. They have slim pickings: no salt, jam, sweets. The potato crop goes largely to France. Coffee is made from parsnips...