Word: woolton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although still better fed than Germans, Britons none the less felt last week a sharp, specific pinch. They had been expecting the meat situation to ease somewhat for Minister of Food Lord Woolton declared fortnight ago: "The meat shortage is only temporary." Instead last week Lord Woolton was obliged to admit: "For the first time in 17 months of war we failed last week to meet the meat ration...
Suiting drastic action to these words, Woolton abruptly lowered the British meat ration, which last month stood at 47? worth of meat per person per week, to 30? (15. 6d.).Two days later the Food Minister felt obliged to cut the meat ration to 23? (15. 2d.)-which at war prices means about 1 Ib. beef or 2 lb. mutton. Chickens are not rationed but cost 65? a lb. and most people cannot afford them. To most Britons this meant that the German counter-blockade had taken hold in grim earnest, although Lord Woolton offered an explanation: "There were excellent...
...Lord Woolton is a Tory and the left-wing press answered the Minister of Food by headlining "WOOLTON MUST GO!" The tabloid Daily Mirror attacked the Government by sending its columnist Cassandra out with a full wallet to gorge himself in London restaurants where rationing does not apply. Wrote replete Cassandra peevishly: "Within five days I have eaten at least seven times my weekly meat ration, five times my butter ration. . . . Not content with this debauch I have swallowed saddle of hare in wine sauce, lobster Thermidor, the inevitable (if you live that way) caviar, Hungarian pork goulash, quails...
...tonnage losses the British must "say a temporary good-by to apples, grapes, apricots and bananas," said Food Minister Lord Woolton. Imported meats would soon be rationed further. Milk, eggs, pork were running short for lack of imported feeds. Surveying Britain's future food situation, some observers predicted that home-grown turnips might become as strategic as homemade guns...
...civilian army was busy this week with plans for building tiers of bunks in the subway stations. Minister of Food Lord Woolton had already provided 20 centres for distributing hot meals of beef stew, rice pudding and tea at eightpence each. London housewives whose stoves might not be functioning at home could go to municipal kitchens to cook meals. Women of the National Conference of Labor urged the Government to fix food prices, claiming that British living costs have risen 32% since break of war. Wages have also risen. With Britain now spending on her war effort more than five...