Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Silhouette. Ever since her coronation with George V in 1911, Britain's Mary had been keeping just such a wellpeeled eye on her relatives, her subjects and the empire, making sure that no one flagged his duty. Her rigidly towering silhouette in the last three decades has become a symbol of British royalty as familiar to newspaper readers the world over as France's Eiffel Tower. Last week in Her Majesty Queen Mary (Sampson Low, London; 125. 6d.), Press Association's Buckingham Palace Correspondent Louis Wulff provided a semi-official but nonetheless intimate glimpse of Mary during...
...charge cocked their ears for the queen's words of approval. "It's too hot in here for those girls," said Queen Mary. "I'll send round an electric fan tomorrow." Next day the fan arrived. In an age marked by universal uncertainty on moral questions, Britain's elder Queen is plagued by few if any doubts. She is as certain of the rectitude of her position as she is of the rectitude of the empire she represents. At an Empire Exhibition in 1938, Queen Mary watched a small boy perusing a globe on which Britain...
Some critics seized on the fact that the U.S. play was co-sponsored by Britain's Arts Council, and tax-exempt as a cultural offering by a non-profit-making producer. They demanded an airing in Parliament. With tickets selling into January, an official of the producing firm asked plaintively: "How did we know the thing was going to make money...
...friend's home, he met Britain's Sigmund Gestetner, maker of a famed old duplicating machine whose design had not been appreciably changed in 30 years. Loewy lugged the duplicator up to his apartment and built a clay model embodying his ideas. Gestetner liked it so well that he paid Loewy $2,000 for it and used the same design for 15 years afterward. (Gestetner paid him a yearly retainer not to design for any competitor.) Overnight, Fashion Artist Loewy decided to become an industrial designer...
...could not get his goods through Customs because U.S. officials were unable to decide whether the import duty should be levied on the cloth or on the coat buttons. EUR) European countries must relax or abolish all import-export controls as quickly as possible and stop penalizing exporters, as Britain has, by putting an extra tax on export profits...