Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slipped behind 50 non-priority locomotives which the manufacturer wanted to deliver first for Britain's own railroads. Nigeria's locomotives were shipped only two months ago. As a result, nearly 175,000 tons of peanuts (enough to make an ounce of margarine for every Briton) have piled up at railheads...
...London last week, from Blackfriars to Tilbury, the normally bustling Thames-side was a brackish backwater. Its forest of cranes was all but motionless. At its wharves 154 ships, Plimsolls awash, groaned to be delivered of cargoes. This week many a Briton would eat more corned beef and dislike it, while fresh beef, Irish eggs and succulent tomatoes waited or rotted beneath battened hatches and in warehouses. Equally worrisome to Britain was the fact that a flood of goods intended for the export trade was piling up at dockside. And at week's end, this state of things...
...changed" souls that gathered around Buchman first called themselves the "First Century Christian Fellowship." But the name that stuck (to outrage many a Briton*) was the "Oxford Group...
...facts. For one thing, Lulu, the Frankses' cherished family cat, was missing-it had somehow disappeared during the crossing, and was still missing when the Franks disembarked from the Queen Elizabeth. For another thing, U.S.-British relations had suddenly become anything but happy. Said one responsible Briton last week: "President Truman has antagonized our Foreign Office more completely than any American since Andrew Jackson...
...When would the British act? Said a Briton: "There is no need to hurry. There is no election in this country until...