Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Politics Since Suez...
ENGLISH ELECTRIC CO. will supply power-generating turbines to South Dakota's Big Bend dam. After Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization reversed previous ruling that national security would be endangered if foreign company received contracts (TIME, June 22), Government accepted $6,512,331 bid of British firm, rejecting low U.S. offer of $9,301,815 by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp...
...poor-grade grain because the yield was greater than on high-quality wheats. When this was dumped abroad by the Government it turned buyers away from the U.S. On top of this, many a grain man was not above shipping second-grade wheat when top quality was ordered. Two British mills, which were taking 1,000,000 bushels a month, became so disgusted with the poor quality of the wheat that they stopped buying. The Wheat Growers Association persuaded them to start again by promising rigid quality controls on shipments...
...bought eight paintings, two of them-an El Greco for $201,600 and a Frans Hals for $134,400-for the same client who had commissioned him to buy the Rubens. As to who the unknown collector was, Koetser would only say that he was "definitely a British collector," male, who had no other...
Rubens but a house big enough to hang it in. The British press, who had been worrying out loud that such a "national" treasure would be snatched away by a rich American, let out a patriotic cheer...