Word: woolton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days after the Conference closed, Britain's Food Minister, Lord Woolton, urged U.S. citizens to "do without" some of their milk, cream, cheese, sugar, canned salmon and meat, send them to Britain to relieve "an unhappy and dull diet." Next day, the first shipload of U.S. Lend-Lease food - eggs, cheese, flour - arrived safely in England...
...hunt down these racketeers Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, last week unleashed a flying squad of special food inspectors, appointed 13 notable businessmen in certain food trades to keep an eye on distribution. Promising a statement to Parliament soon on food prices, Lord Woolton announced that the Government had fitted out a fleet of traveling grocery vans to take the place of ruined shops in bombed areas...
...last week London's Anglo-American society, The Pilgrims, sat eating Lord Woolton pie, a pottage of vegetables named for the Food Minister. They stopped clattering their forks as the red-coated toastmaster called for order and gave the floor to Winston Churchill...
Same day Lord Woolton forced London restaurateurs into a gentlemen's agreement that henceforth, while there will still be no official food rationing in British restaurants (such as there has been in German restaurants for the past 15 months), a British restaurant patron can have a dish of fish, meat, poultry, cheese or eggs, but only one of the five at any meal...
Henceforth, according to Lord Woolton, the meat ration will probably be readjusted from time to time, and as another week began he adjusted it up from...