Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lordship, Stoke is "an exciting experiment"-the end of his lifelong dream to give a university education to all the John Elkins of Britain. "Some have told me," says he, "that ... I am proposing to put a lever under a rock which has stood in one place for a great many years. Well, then, at my age, I cannot afford to wait too long...
Sometimes he would bicycle to some Oxfordshire village to talk philosophy with bakers, blacksmiths and shopkeepers. He pedaled his way to grimy Black Country potteries to speak on political science. Night after night, he tramped through muddy lanes to lecture under the auspices of Britain's Workers Education Association, which he himself had helped to found...
Bloody Focus. Anglo-Iranian, which runs its affairs in the old-fashioned capitalist way (for all that the government owns 52.55% of its stock), stands out like a healthy thumb of prosperity amid Britain's near-bankruptcy. The company has, in fact, never ceased to prosper since the day in 1909 when it acquired the rich Persian oil concession that William Knox D'Arcy, a wandering Englishman, had bagged for a mere...
...focus of almost endless bloody struggles. The eastward-thrusting Kaiser coveted them in 1915 as did Panzer-probing Rommel in 1942. Between times and since, there have been such threats to meet as the overthrow of the Ottoman Empire and tribal revolts provoked by Soviet Russia. Through all, Britain and Anglo-Iranian, bending but never breaking in the storm, have kept control. Now Anglo-Iranian has assets of ?76,753,472, is the third largest crude-oil producer in the world; only Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) and Royal Dutch-Shell are bigger...
...Anglo-Persian Oil Co.) took over his father's company and "Willie came with the shale." He moved up to a directorship, then became Anglo-Iranian's deputy chairman. In 1931 he helped form Shell-Mex & B.P., Ltd. to market Anglo-Iranian and Shell products in Britain, and set up the Consolidated Refineries, Ltd. subsidiary which built such huge Anglo-Iranian installations as the refinery at Haifa. Fraser moved into, the top job when Sir John Cadman died...