Word: british
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Golden Strand. That destiny had been fixed since the day a British soldier from Fort Pitt loaded a canoe with black coal from Mt. Washington and paddled off happily to build a fire in his barracks. The fort became a village and a forge, a town of sawmills, tan yards, lime kilns, brick kilns. Coal brought iron, and Pittsburgh opened its first blast furnace in 1790. It supplied shot and shell for Jackson's cannon at New Orleans and iron for the Civil...
...over Scotland's Renfrew Airfield, a 7-oz. plover with Kamikaze tendencies flew head-on into a London-bound British European Airways Dakota and brought the big aircraft to earth for repairs. In Suffolk, meanwhile, an armed task force of 100 British countrymen so far forgot their sporting instincts as to go after rapidly multiplying British foxes with guns...
...British officialdom was ready with instructions to cope with any emergency that might arise from the conflict. In the case of seaborne invasion, the British Museum had issued a neat booklet telling Britons what to do if they should find a whale on their beach. The prescribed procedure was simple: fill out a form (N.H.M. Form 136 tidily enclosed in the booklet), and mail it to the Keeper of Zoology. Question No. 1 on the form read: "Is the tail horizontal?" Since all whales have horizontal tails, the questionnaire continued sensibly: "If the answer to this question...
...harsh remedy of Britain's pound devaluation was beginning to take effect last week. The patients did not like it. Throughout the world, industry faced the fact that in the fight for foreign trade it would now have to compete for all it was worth with cheaper British goods. French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche proposed a Western European trade bloc to meet what he called British "commercial warfare...
...vacation short; on his return, Cripps drove straight from the airport to Attlee's country residence at Chequers. It was at this point that Cripps changed his slow-changing mind. Ten days after Attlee and Cripps decided to devalue, the British Cabinet approved the step...