Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jersey Standard and its subsidiary in Britain, said Holman, are now spending $150 million to expand the refineries there. But before they started, they got an assurance from the Labor government that it did not intend to nationalize the oil industry...
...Britain, Faery Products, Ltd. offered for export a "better mousetrap." The trap has a platform surrounding the bait. When the mouse touches the platform, the trap springs; the bait can be used again. Price: about...
...answer to this question about Henry Yorke will be found in the novels of Henry Green, which now number seven and embrace an astonishingly wide reach of British life and customs. There are as many distinctive social classes in Britain as there are regions in the U.S., and most British novelists, no matter how imaginative and observant, are as incapable of portraying life in any strata other than their own as, say, a Brooklyn-bred novelist would be of showing how a tree grows in Independence, Mo. But the novels of Henry Green, which are still little known in Britain...
Butler Charley is an ambitious rogue with a bad conscience, a double man who is torn between his desire to make hay while the sun shines in neutral Eire and his realization that his manly pride depends on his returning to embattled Britain. Similarly, he is the sort of a man who loves to hide his capacity for love and loyalty under a leering, winking mask of sexy chatter and innuendo ("Let me tell you," he assured young Albert, referring to the departed French governess, "there was many an occasion I went up to Mam-selle's boudoir...
...conflict in 1949 is not between a group of Conservatives and Socialists but between two sets of principles which are being discussed, not only in Great Britain but in every country in the world...