Word: stracheys
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...Last week Food Minister John Strachey announced that each Briton could buy an extra 10? worth of meat for Christmas week, over his normal weekly ration of 20? worth. Other Christmas extras: 1½ lbs. of sugar, 4 oz. of candy (normal ration, 4 oz. weekly...
...five to six pounds of potatoes a week, but last week the bottom of the stewpot was beginning to show. Potatoes themselves, the No. 1 staple in the British diet, were rationed-three pounds per week per Briton. "If we'd done nothing," said Food Minister John Strachey, "some time in the spring potatoes would have run out, which would have been a catastrophe." Some British housewives felt the catastrophe had happened. "Many of my customers," said Brixton Greengrocer George Kingston, "went away crying when they saw their three-pound ration...
...million on their way from South Africa last week to relieve the monotony of the British diet. They were filled with snoek (rhymes with cook). "I've never met a snoek face to face," said Food Minister John Strachey, announcing the purchase, "so I can't tell you much about it except that it's four feet long and slender." But the dictionary defined snoek as a form of barracuda, and Strachey's press conference broke up under the firm impression that snoek was a maritime menace. A Daily Mail headline promptly labeled the snoek...
...archetype of Prussian character and statecraft, "Old Fritz" inspired Goethe, has been almost adored by a long line of German historians. Carlyle, Macaulay and Lytton Strachey wrote of him with fascination and even with admiration. Present-day scholarship has little to add to the full-dress biographies now in existence, but British Historian Gooch, a master of all the sources, has strung the story together with authority...
...Evelyn John St.Loe Strachey, Minister of Food in the Labor Government...