Word: woolton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comments on the projected $4.4 billion U.S. loan to Britain-the deal nobody liked. Americans resented being called Shylocks for having made the loan at quasi-commercial terms. In England, the House of Lords accepted it even more bitterly than had the House of Commons (TIME, Dec. 24). Lord Woolton called it "degradation." The loan was linked to Bretton Woods* as twin shackles on Britain's economic freedom...
Pompous Labor Lord Strabolgi (the tenth of his line) backslapped portly Labor Lord Quibell (first of his line), an ex-Midlands bricklayer. Lord and Lady Woolton (he top-hatted, she bejeweled) nodded to Sir John and Lady Anderson (he in formal cutaway, she in wedge sandals). Opposition Leader Winston Churchill, in striped pants and spotted bow tie, came with Anthony Eden, magnificent in formal clothes and studied carelessness...
...short order Woolton unrolled blueprints to provide higher expenditure on national health ($250 millions to $600 millions annually), family allowances, old-age pensions. A far-reaching Education Act, raising the school-leaving age from 14 to 16, will go into operation next month...
Practical Tories. Few of the plans are Woolton's own. Most are the distilled product of many minds, but Woolton channeled and coordinated the flow of ideas and gave them practical character. His self-confident experience drew the blueprints that might well prove to be Britain's footprints of the future...
...Woolton's successor will, it appears, soon have to reduce these amounts further. With supplies of meat and cheese still shrinking in the U.S., and new demands coming from the liberated countries, the news was broken to Britons this week that U.S. meat exports to Britain would be cut from 207 million lbs. to 25 million...