Word: woolton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, Britons have precious little even to lick this spring, but they are not grumbling because they know that Food Minister Lord Woolton is doing about everything possible with the supplies available. Not only is the meat ration down to 25? per week per person, but 3? of it must be taken in corned beef, thus lessening the possibilities for stews from weekly roasts. Offals (liver, brains, kidneys, etc.) are still unrationed, but most of the supplies have been sent to the canning companies. Rarely now can British families sit down to a dinner of their beloved steak & kidney...
Short rations, however, do not mean that Britain is running out of food. Actually stocks are greater now than they were two and a half years ago. But Lord Woolton, a successful department-store tycoon before he became Food Minister, knows that it might be fatal to dig into surpluses now. Said he last fortnight: "We are doing our best to keep you alive until the war is over. You will get thin but we are doing better than the Germans." (Actually most Britons are already thinner - as much as ten pounds...
...Lord Woolton has done much more than see that everybody at the national table gets a helping by making the servings small. Since the war's start nearly 1,500 communal feeding centers for the poor have been opened, 200 in London alone. Some 18,000 pig clubs are producing 3,000 tons of "backyard" bacon a year. Little heavy or bulky food is brought in from abroad. The result of these measures, plus the fact that over 4,000,000 new acres have gone into production, is that Britain is able to get along, although her ships carry...
Last week Lord Woolton (on orders from the Cabinet) went a step further. Partly to conserve more food but mainly to stop the rich going to restaurants for coupon-free meals after their rations at home are all eaten, he banned the serving of food after n p.m., limited the sale of fish, game and poultry to specified days. There was also talk that Lord Woolton would set a price ceiling of five shillings ($1) for restaurant meals...
Rationed Britain got good news about its food supply last week. Last month bushy-browed, eagle-beaked Minister of Food Frederick James Marquis, Baron Woolton, promised that rationing would be relaxed. Last week he explained his promise: U.S. food is pouring into Britain. U.S. Lend-Lease supplies now provide Britain with five or six per cent of her total foodstuffs, a full 25% of her animal proteins. Greater quantities are expected...