Word: backworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Immingham Dock, Humber River, in the north of England, the little freighter Backworth last week loaded $10,000 worth of sugar, flour, fruit and dried salt fish for starving Basques in Spain's besieged Bilbao. More than one-tenth of the cargo was paid for by David Lloyd George who seldom misses a chance to make political capital of anything. Down to the dock hurried Britain's Wartime Prime Minister to wring Captain Russell of the Backworth by the hand...
...Bilbao blockade went the Backworth with the blessings of most Britons behind it. Not Lloyd George or even the Back-worth was responsible for the sudden pro-Leftist switch in British opinion last week but a group of blustering captains of rusty little British freighters. While the British Cabinet worried over Generalissimo Franco's blockade, the captains, three of whom were named Jones, and their cargoes of spoiling food remained marooned in the French harbor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz. First to catch the public eye was Captain David ("Potato") Jones, part-owner of the Marie Llewellyn and nicknamed...
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