Word: woolton
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
...Minister of Food who knew something about dealing with the public, the Prime Minister sagely went outside the Cabinet and hired a shopkeeper tycoon-Frederick James Marquis, Lord Woolton, banker, insuranceman and chairman of Lewis's Ltd., a chain of Midlands department stores. He used to criticize Neville Chamberlain's "parsimony"; when Chamberlain was Chancellor of the Exchequer. Day after Lord Woolton joined the Cabinet Mrs. Chamberlain introduced him at a"Better Cookery" campaign meeting as follows: "Since arrangements for this meeting have been made some body has been busy changing Cabinet Ministers around." (Laughter.) Thin-lipped thin...