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Food Minister John Strachey's allocation last week of 50,000 tons of barley had started up Scotch distilleries (dormant since last summer), averted a contemplated slash in the export of Scotch whiskey, which nets Britain many (in 1945-$16,000,000) of her eagerly sought U.S. dollars...
Down: Meat & Beer. All week long Britons were bombarded by bad news, dark predictions and more austerity. The Government served notice of a cut in fresh meat rations, and warned that bread and bacon rations might be cut. Mrs. Rose Wood of Arrington, Cheshire, sent Food Minister John Strachey two ounces of bacon and an ounce of cooking fat with a sizzling note suggesting that he "take this back and export it with the other things...
Britons last week could only hope that the Ghost of Christmas Present would provide a transformation for them, as it had for Scrooge. Instead, they chuckled grimly over a bitter Christmas jest, "Starve with Strachey, shiver with Shin-well" (Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell)*, watched the delivery of the King's traditional gift of a hundredweight of coal to the needy of four Windsor parishes, read hungrily about the progress of a British freighter, the Highland Monarch, as it butted through the foggy Atlantic. Aboard were 250,000 turkeys from Argentina, which would help feed many a hungry Briton this...
Able Food Minister John Strachey (whose wife had no guarantee yet of a turkey for her husband) had granted extra rations of an extra pound and a half of sugar for everybody, an extra half-pound of candy for those under 18 and over 70, and an extra eightpence worth of meat. But even though shops were more abundantly stocked with pineapples, tangerines and other fruits, Britons would not eat as well this Christmas as they...
...Britain's House of Commons, the art of conversation had hard going. Bookish Food Minister John Strachey (The Coming Struggle for Power) tried to interrupt a speech by another member, who suggested he "wait until I have finished." Retorted Strachey: "Keep your temper." Objected Conservative Sir Gifford Fox: "Surely that is not a ministerial expression. . . . Take your hands out of your pockets and sit down." Shouted Strachey: ". . . schoolboy stuff !" The Speaker finally got a little quiet. "There is tea being provided," he announced, "in the corridor outside...