Word: woolton
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Less equivocal was the opening sentence of Britain's official plan. Lord Woolton's white paper on Employment Policy. It read: "The Government accept as one of their primary aims and responsibilities the maintenance of a high and stable level of employment after the war." The paper proposed to fulfill this aim by countercyclical spending on public works and by countercyclical manipulation of social-security contributions made by workers and employers, lowering contributions required in bad times, raising them in good times...
...years, had just wiped the hustings with his by-election opponent, Farmer William Donald Clark. It was not much of a fight. White-haired Farmer Clark passed round the hat at his meetings. White-haired Sir William explained his famed social-security plan, already somewhat dated by the Conservative Woolton Plan (TIME, Oct. 9) which Sir William has endorsed. Sir William's majority...
Died. Loreto Santarelli, 57, soft-tongued, Italian-born maître d'hôtel of London's big, swank Savoy since 1926, inventor of Britain's war-famed Woolton Pie (crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...
Nothing that the war had done to England was so important. Last week, with no more warning than a gliding buzz-bomb, the Conservative Government launched its "prosperity and happiness program," Lord Woolton's plan for cradle-to-grave social security. Famed Sir William Beveridge, stepfather of the plan, gave it his blessing, even thought it an improvement on his own. To most people it looked like "socialism in our time...
...Poverty. Amiable, efficient Lord Woolton, Britain's Conservative Reconstruction Minister, called the plan "a declaration of war against poverty." Based on the Beveridge Plan, but costing slightly less (approximately $2,600,000,000 for the first year against the Beveridge Plan's $2,788,000,000, it is the product of several ministries, many minds. It is all-embracing (it provides for every man, woman & child), and cooperative (it is financed by compulsory contributions from all who are able to pay). Its benefits begin at birth with a maternity allowance, end at death with a grant. General benefits...