Word: stracheys
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...like to see Mr. Strachey† queue-in' and scrapin' for every bit of fat and soap. It's the women wot 'ave the 'ard time these days...
...Congressmen cross-examined Food Minister John Strachey and were a little annoyed by his air of supercilious serenity. They were more impressed by Sir Stafford Cripps, president of the Board of Trade. Cripps said that Britain was bracing itself to get along without another U.S. dime, if necessary...
Bleak House. "This" was both too little and too much. It was not enough to give Britons a dramatic sense of back-to-the-wall fighting. Yet the new restrictions, coming on top of all the others, deepened the gloom that hung over the island. John Strachey's Food Ministry slashed several rations. It was worse than the bleak wartime year of 1941. Then a Briton was allowed a shilling and a half's worth of meat a week; now, a shilling's worth. Then he got twelve ounces of sugar; now, eight. Then, eight ounces...
...pressure for dollars rises and Britain's supply of dollars dwindles, how is Britain to feed her people next winter? Recently, Food Minister John Strachey made an optimistic speech pointing out that world crop prospects were good. But the expected food surpluses were in areas where it takes dollars, not pounds...
...anybody's guess whether Eton could keep its course steady in its sixth century as it had in its first five. True, two members of the Labor Cabinet (Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, Food Minister John Strachey) wear the black-&-blue old school tie, and are proud of it. So do six Labor and 57 other M.P.s, such left-wing literati as Cyril Connolly and George Orwell. But many a Briton was finding it hard last week to visualize Eton in a socialist future...