Word: chauffeur-driven
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Need for Speed. At 9:30 every morning last week a black, chauffeur-driven Humber, sporting London's R.A.F. pennant at its radiator cap, drew away from a Mayfair hotel and whizzed to the Air Ministry in Whitehall. Peter Portal hopped out and literally ran upstairs to his big, high-ceilinged office on the second floor. There he rushes all day-reading reports at his neat walnut desk, drafting concise memos for the War Cabinet, gulping down a chop and an apple for lunch, talking with aides and prodding them with his pipe stem, phoning, planning, dining...