SECRET. SHORTAGES OF NECESSARY OR SEMI-NECESSARY CONSUMERS' GOODS. Memorandum by the Economic Section of the War Cabinet Secretariat. Introductory. 1. At its 13th Meeting on 4th April, the Lord President's Committee "Invited the Lord President of the Council to arrange for a report to be prepared by the Economic Staff of the War Cabinet Secretariat in consultation with the Ministries of Food and Supply and the Board of Trade, on the case of necessary or semi-necessary articles likely to be in short supply".
- Civil Defence Region
- Nationwide
- Collection ID
- CAB71
- Document Reference
- CAB 71/4/21
- Document Types
- Memorandum Statistical Publication
- File Reference
- CAB 71/4
- Former Department Reference
- LP(41) 94
- Identifier
- 10.1080/wtss.cab71.000004.021
- Keywords
- Air-raid Shelters Alcohol Aluminium Beer Biscuits Bomb Damage Butter Cakes Cheese Chocolate Cigarettes Civil Consumption Clothing Coal Consumer Goods Cotton Dairy Distribution Domestic Equipment Eggs Evacuees Exports Fish Food Supplies Fruit Fuel Furnishings Material Shortages Meat Metals Overseas Trade Potatoes Rationing Raw Materials Retail Statistics Sugar Textiles Timber Tin Tobacco Vegetables Wholesale Wool
- Language
- English
- Organizations Discussed
- Economic Section of the War Cabinet Secretariat Lord President's Committee
- Pages
- 13
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Series
- Papers Nos. 76(41) - 158(41)
- Themes
- Rationing Supply Licensing Price Control Retail Consumer Goods
