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...black-eyed, hyperenergetic Xenia Field (prewar playwright and golf champion, now Deputy Director of Britain's Supply Ministry) told her fellow Laborites to stop hollering at the miners and give them more to eat. In Holland, where miners got 5,248 calories a day (British miner's ration: 2,750 to 3,000 calories) and all sorts of extras, coal production was growing. The Dutch incentive system, said Xenia Field, was "a carrot, but a highly desirable carrot...
...retiring Quartermaster General's delight at the civilian kit issued him on demobilization-"a suit, a raincoat, two shirts, one pair of socks, two collars, a tie and a pair of shoes." In clothes-short Britain, such an outfit would take more than a year's ration points. When hundreds of other ex-soldiers angrily asked why General Riddell-Webster got two shirts, the British War Office called it "a packing error" and sent an officer to retrieve the second shirt...
...Annie would send housewives raiding grocers' shelves by reporting that the Allies had dropped fake ration stamps. Once the station described a celebration honoring German railroad workers-most of them slave laborers. Said Annie: "At the end of the celebration, speeches were translated into Polish, Hungarian and Slovak-for the benefit of the assembled . . . workers...
...imports. Then publicity-shy Sir Ben, a former cabby, meeting the press for the first time in many months, said that the world food crisis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had made still further cuts necessary. Because India was exporting fewer ground nuts and Antarctic whaling results were disappointing, the ration of cooking fat was to be reduced to seven ounces a week (former ration: eight ounces). Because imports of fodder were reduced, there would soon be less bacon, less poultry, fewer shell eggs (present average: 2½ eggs per person a month). Bread might again be rationed too. "Not one grain...
Britons scarcely noted the first rumblings of an acrimonious debate in the U.S. Congress over the British loan. They were more worried about dried eggs. Long the butt of G.I. wisecracks, the yellow powder is no joke to Britons, and when the Food Ministry announced that the monthly ration of one package (equivalent to twelve eggs) would have to end, there was a housewifely clamor...