Word: stracheys
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...slight (inevitable) delay, the large balding head of Quintus Fabius Maximus' disciple Harold Laski popped through the white backdrop. Laski, peering over the big red carnation in his buttonhole, advanced to the rostrum followed by Prime Minister Attlee, Lord President of the Council Herbert Morrison, Food Minister John Strachey and Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson, all wearing red carnations...
Minister of Food Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey was also squirming unhappily over the bitter bread-rationing controversy. Proudly he had announced that the first three weeks of rationing achieved a 33% saving of flour. Cried the Tory press and the National Association of Master Bakers: misrepresentation. They pointed out that holidays always made August a low flour consumption month and that housewives had simply used up back stocks. While the people concluded that the truth lay midway between Strachey's optimistic figure and the bakers' gloomy 10% estimate, they remained unconvinced that bread rationing had ever been...
...colleagues on the Cabinet Committees are shy, pedantic Hugh Dalton, whose brilliant work as Chancellor of the Exchequer has created a minor sensation; erudite, aristocratic ex-Communist John Strachey, Labor's new Food Minister; ailing, aging (74) Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India; austere theoretician Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade; redhaired, demonstrative Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson, who used to be Morrison's Parliamentary Secretary. Bellicose Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, who is in charge of housing (only one out of five new houses may be privately built), has promised bombed-out Britons...
...next four years. The price would be $1.55 a bushel. This would ensure Britons cheap bread and Canadians a guaranteed market, although prairie farmers complained bitterly that they were losing millions of dollars. (U.S. farmers were getting $2.16 a bushel.) Nevertheless, Britain's Food Minister John Strachey flew out to Ottawa to sign on the dotted line...
...British market. This did not matter now, but in years of surplus crops it might cost the U.S. farmer plenty. Furthermore, the State Department warned that the British loan, still awaiting House approval, might lose enough votes from the wheat-producing West to be defeated. Britain bowed; Strachey flew home empty handed...