Word: bovril
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...invaded Britain in 1957, gained control of the British food company Bovril in 1971, reorganized it, moved on to the U.S. in 1973, acquired the ailing Grand Union chain for $62 million, reorganized it, launched a raid on Diamond International, began eyeing St. Regis, the Continental Group, Colgate- Palmolive, Crown Zellerbach, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Pan Am. He operated through a network of Panamanian and Caribbean holding companies, all ultimately controlled by an organization called the Brunneria Foundation, headquartered in Liechtenstein and entirely owned by Goldsmith and his family...
...tooth and the weight-consciousness of Britons by forming Cavenham Foods as a diversified maker of candy and diet products. Following the recipes of Jim Slater and other British takeover specialists, Goldsmith began buying troubled foodmakers and selling off their undervalued surplus assets. He surprised British financiers by buying Bovril, maker of Britain's best-known beef extract, for $50 million in June 1971. Since then the price of Cavenham shares has tripled...
...Bovril & Euripides. This strange hero's private life is told with all the rhetorical flimflam of a Victorian romance, but with the shocking -or comic -difference that what should be the heroine is a boy. Except for this novelty, all the period's literary conventions are present. Crabbe's heterodoxy is an "alabaster" youth named Kemp, as "pure as a moonstone," whose hair had turned white the month after he was sent down from Oxford (for an unspecified offense). Reduced to the martyrdom of earning his keep as a telegraph messenger, Kemp goes blind. Crabbe installs...
...small. They were particularly impressed with the Queen and one admitted later that King George "was certainly attractive." Most of them were startled to find their British counterparts as well-dressed as themselves. "I saw only one or two curtains," said Denise Lawson-Johnston, of the New York Bovril people, in wondering tones...
...British Isles. For more than a week, news of the Beveridge Plan has monopolized space on the newsboys' placards, and every influential newspaper in the land has approved it at least in principle. Even in the Conservative "Times" war dispatches have been shoved back between the ads for Bovril and Player's Navy Cut. His Majesty's Stationery Office is swamped with requests for copies of the complex 300,000 word text Goebbel's propaganda mill has been forced by skillful B.B.C. publicity to ridicule rather than ignore...