Word: british
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BELFAST, Northern Ireland-British troops used tear-gas to break up a demonstration of militant. Protestants in Belfast yesterday...
Guide Alan Blackwell reported yesterday in Burns Lake. British Columbia, that a hunter has killed what may be the largest grizzly bear ever shot. It weighed 1200 pounds at the time of its death...
...nations of the Continent have long belittled Britain for its inability to curb wildcat strikes. Last week wildcatters in the shipping and motor industries were giving British officials fits, as usual. Suddenly, however, those walkouts seemed as harmless as prolonged tea breaks compared with what was happening across the Channel: > In Italy, 130,000 workers left Turin's Fiat plant, and thousands more struck the Pirelli rubberworks in Milan, in both cases for higher wages. In the first six months of this year, walkouts cost some 81 million man-hours. Worse is in prospect, for labor contracts affecting half...
...respectively. What bothered Germans more than the size of the settlements, however, was the fact that both were won in wildcat strikes -a tactic almost never used by West Germany's well-disciplined labor unions. Some businessmen wondered aloud whether Germany had caught the "English sickness" that allows British shop stewards to close whole industries in defiance of national union leaders...
Proponents of the SST have a compelling economic argument. U.S. aircraft have dominated world skies for 25 years or more, and last year $1.7 billion worth was sold abroad, the nation's largest single item of capital goods export. Now U.S. supremacy seems threatened. The British-French Concorde, which will carry up to 144 passengers at 1,400 m.p.h., is scheduled to fly supersonically for the first time this month and to go into regular service in 1973. The Soviets are even further ahead; their TU-144 has already logged nearly 200 hours of flight, and may fly passengers...