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  2. Feeding Britain in the Second World War - Wikipedia

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    Rationing aimed to reduce the supply of imported food and meat so that more resources could be devoted to the war. [41] The Ministry of Food recognized that rationing would likely cause increases in the price of food to consumers and decided to subsidize the prices of many foods, thereby reducing inflationary pressures.

  3. Rationing in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Child's ration book, used during the Second World War. Emergency supplies for the 4 million people expected to be evacuated were delivered to destination centres by August 1939, and 50 million ration books were already printed and distributed. [11] When World War II began in September 1939, petrol was the first commodity to be controlled.

  4. British Restaurant - Wikipedia

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    British Restaurants were communal kitchens created in 1940 during the Second World War to help people who had been bombed out of their homes, had run out of ration coupons or otherwise needed help. [1] [2] In 1943, 2,160 British Restaurants served 600,000 very inexpensive meals a day. [3] They were disbanded in 1947.

  5. 10-in-1 food parcel - Wikipedia

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    Over 300 million rations, costing about 85 cents each, were procured under the 10-in-1 title from mid-1943 to the end of World War II. No other group ration was procured during that period. Hence, in actuality as well as nomenclature, "Ration, 10-in-1" was the final small-group ration of World War II.

  6. Elsie Widdowson - Wikipedia

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    Elsie Widdowson CH CBE FRS [1] (21 October 1906 – 14 June 2000), was a British dietitian and nutritionist.Alongside her research partner, Dr. Robert McCance (pediatrician, physiologist, biochemist, and nutritionist), they were responsible for overseeing the government-mandated addition of vitamins to food and wartime rationing in Britain during World War II.

  7. Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979) - Wikipedia

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    The BBC remained a powerful force, despite the arrival of Independent Television in 1955. [144] Newspaper barons had less political power after 1945. Stephen Koss explains that the decline was caused by structural shifts: the major Fleet Street papers became properties of large, diversified capital empires with more interest in profits than ...

  8. Minister of Food - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, food rationing was a major success story in Britain's war. [ 4 ] In the dark days of late June 1940, with a German invasion threatened, Woolton reassured the public that emergency food stocks were in place that would last "for weeks and weeks" even if the shipping could not get through.

  9. Interwar Britain - Wikipedia

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    However, food rationing remained until 1921. Prices increased twice as fast during 1919 than they had during the war and this was followed by wage increases. [ 5 ] High taxation was regarded as the cause of wasteful government expenditure and in 1921 an Anti-Waste movement was launched, which attracted considerable support for its attacks on ...