Word: beaverbrook
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About the time of D-day in Europe, said Beaverbrook, Britain had 11% of its population in the forces; the U.S. had 85%. War casualties of the British Commonwealth at the end of May totaled 1,427,000, compared with American casualties of approximately 986,000 at the same time. (U.S. totals as of last week...
...rest assured," said Beaverbrook, "that we have no intention of reserving the defeat of Japan to the Americans. We share the duty...
...come & go, but was this pretty, vivacious, 32-year-old woman about to rewrite a chapter of British news paper history? Her fondest hope had be come common knowledge: to spur her 47-year-old husband's Daily Mail back into the all but lost struggle with Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, and win the top in the mass circulation field...
Lady Rothermere is not always discreet about the things she hears at her private board meetings. Confidential information given Esmond at the Mail office often finds its way about town. But despite these lapses, Lady Rothermere keeps her eye on the main job-building Rothermere into a better Beaverbrook...
...Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express opened the bidding at ?500, dropped out at ?3,000; Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail, which finally got it for ?18,000 ($72,000), sold ?16,000 worth of reprint rights to other papers...