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Britain's Food Minister Gwilym Lloyd George looked into the nation's larder, and finding it all but bare, decided that Britons would get no extra food rations for Christmas this year. He sent his boss Winston Churchill a detailed memo explaining why. Churchill bowed to the decision, initialed the memo and sent it back —with an added notation: "Scrooge!"

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