Word: bolton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carefully whitened doorstep of a tiny terrace home in the Lancashire cotton city of Bolton (pop. 200,000), a milkman set down three pint bottles. "They usually take four," he said, "but with one or two of them on short time, they're down to two or three." At the grocery store down the street, Bolton housewives were no longer buying their full egg ration (one per week). A big bakery, supplying Bolton's suburbs, cut its daily bake by 1,000 loaves...
Spinner Harry Jackson, waiting for work in a Bolton mill, explained how it happened to him. "My wife works in the mill. Now she's on short time. Last week we were earning together nearly ?18 ($50.58); now, only four or five." In grim, workaday Bolton, where a third of the population depends on the mills, there were thousands of Harry Jacksons. In crowded Lancashire, there were 70,000 wholly or partly unemployed...
...fine cloth, which once clothed half of Asia, can no longer compete in price with Japanese and Indian cloth spun by cheaper labor. The world's younger nations, e.g., Argentina and Pakistan, have built their own mills, and buy less and less from Britain. Short time in Bolton will never be far away...
...meeting started with a hopeful, high-sounding statement from Harry Truman: "I am sure . . . that none of the members of the fund will [try] to justify restrictions on trade and exchange which are not actually needed." But hardly were those words out when Britain's Sir George Bolton brought the other delegates back to earth. There was "very little chance," said he. of any relaxation of Britain's trade restrictions next year or in 1953. More likely, he said, the restrictions would be tightened...
...beat the veteran doubles pair of Mrs. Margaret Osborne du Pont and Louise Brough, four-time Wimbledon champions, 6-3, 13-11. Doris and Australia's Frank Sedgmari won the mixed-doubles title, 7-5, 6-2, from the Australian team of Mervyn Rose and Mrs. Nancye Wynne Bolton. Sedgman and McGregor successfully defended their title by downing Drobny and South Africa's Eric Sturgess...