Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain may build a new African empire because of a discovery announced last week: a new synthetic drug called Antrycide, to cure and prevent trypanosomiasis (related to sleeping sickness) in cattle. The drug will be used in a vast area of Africa, larger than the U.S., where profitable ranching has long been impossible because of tsetse flies which carry the wiggly protozoan parasite of trypanosomiasis to domestic cattle, horses and hogs...
Some authorities on trypanosomiasis believe that Antrycide has not been tested enough, but last week all food-conscious Britain was cheering the empire-building drug. The Colonial Office predicted that African cattle raising will show positive improvement in four years and large-scale development in ten years. Said the Daily Mirror: "British Africa can become the largest meat-producing area in the world...
...produce it. But with all his shelved ideas for speeding up the ponderous Met (TIME, Sept. 6), he could hardly have improved on Agnes de Mille's staging of The Rape of Lucretia or on John Piper's handsome sets, imported from Britten's Britain. Dark-eyed Kitty Carlisle looked ravishing as Lucretia and sang almost as well. George Tozzi (as Tarquinius) sang a fine baritone. As demanded, it was a quality operation, even if it fell short of being a quality opera...
John Barbirolli was the most popular man in Manchester last week, and with reason. A few hours before concert time he had turned down $40,000 a year and one of the most coveted conductorships in Britain-the BBC Symphony-to stick with the Halle at half the salary...
When the war began, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder* wrote: "As far as the Navy is concerned, obviously it is in no way adequately equipped for the great struggle with Great Britain . . . it has built up a well-trained, suitably organized submarine arm, of which at the moment about 26 boats are capable of operations in the Atlantic; the submarine arm is still much too weak, however, to have any decisive effect on the war. The surface forces, moreover, are so inferior in number and strength that they can do no more than show that they know how to die gallantly...