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Prime Minister Clement Attlee, striving to stave off an election until fall (when home killings of meat may have upped the ration and the coal shortage may be eased), tried to rally his men. "Keep your heads," he told a meeting of Labor M.P.s. "Restrain yourselves. Have patience. We shall not yield...
Like many office secretaries in England, 37-year-old Norah Maloney sets great store by her weekly 5-oz. ration of chocolate, caches it in the office filing cabinet. One morning last January Miss Maloney entered her office at David Shanks & Co., Birmingham manufacturers of sheet-metal pressings, found files and paper strewn about, the cash box rifled of ?4 2s. 9d. Her chocolate bar was half eaten...
...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...
Britons sizzled last week over a 20% government cut in the tiny meat ration. The cut reduces the ration to eightpence (9?) worth a week-about one small lamb chop or a matchbox-sized piece of steak. This is an alltime low-less meat than sweat-&-tears Churchill gave them in the worst days...
London's Liberal News Chronicle pointed out another result of Socialist economies: with the new ration cut, the government is committed to subsidize butchers by an additional ?20 million ($56 million) yearly so that they can stay in business. Said the News Chronicle: "It will, therefore, cost the taxpayers four times as much not to have meat as it would cost the consumers to have...