Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a down-to-the-hearthside preamble explaining Britain's economic plight, Sir Stafford came to the sensational core of his message: Britain was devaluing the pound from $4.03 to $2.80. Even to those experts who were dead sure that devaluation was coming, the size of the cut (31%) was breathtaking...
...Britain's six-girl Wightman Cup tennis team, which sometimes outshone the U.S. girls in looks but not in form, and went to defeat for the 13th consecutive time, at Haverford, Pa.'s Merion Cricket Club...
...found that the "beauty and symmetry" of American frock coats were being "nullified through advancing the scye [i.e., armhole] beyond a point absolutely required by the form and size of the figure." In recent years it has turned its batteries of disapproval on the baggy pants of some of Britain's top Socialist ministers. Nothing, however, that Tailor & Cutter discerned in Westminster or the wastes of the U.S. could quite equal the awful abyss it found in Moscow...
...pressagent's dream, and it had been largely dreamed up by pressagents. For her busty boost to the movie Black Magic, United Artists was paying Shirley May ?1,000 ($4,000), which she could not take out of Britain. Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association had anted up some $2,500 in dollars for the exclusive rights to Shirley May's byline and to feature picture coverage. Other wire services, newspapers and magazines had assigned 80 reporters and photographers to cover Shirley...
...mining man with an African background. Storke had trotted the globe and risen to the presidency of Climax Molybdenum Corp. He was an operating director of South Africa's Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd., and of Rhodesian Selection Trust, Ltd.; during World War II, as minerals adviser to Britain's Ministry of Supply, he expedited mining operations in South Africa...