Word: derick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British taxpayer got good news last week. Last year Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory put through such a severe anti-inflation budget that he now had a large cash surplus. So this year he was able to put an extra billion or more into the hands of spenders and investors. Items...
...reasonable and practical settlement," Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory called it, but nobody else in Britain was much cheered by the terms. Heathcoat Amory had to admit that the value of business property for which the Egyptians are to pay $87 million was estimated by Britain at $126 million, and the Egyptians themselves put the value at $107 million...
Brooding over this unsettling report, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory two weeks ago took advantage of a routine Paris meeting of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to discuss some highly private business with West German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard and French Finance Minister Antoine Pinay. The fruits of that chat were harvested late last week, when the British treasury laconically announced that it had decided to make the pound sterling "externally convertible...
...greyest months, broke out in loud tones. In Rome, officials of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization warned that the price bottom might drop out of Europe's agricultural market this fall, and in London Britain's cautious Chancellor of the Exchequer, Derick Heathcoat Amory, talked bluntly of "a possible recession in the fall...
Tall, earnest Derick Heathcoat Amory, 58, is regarded as a comer in British politics, partly because he is not too pushy about getting there. A quiet, unpretentious West Country bachelor squire who rode to hounds and managed the family textile business until World War II, he helped plan the costly Arnhem operation and, at 44, insisted on going along. Breaking a thigh in jumping, he was captured, went home on crutches from a German prison camp at war's end in time to run for Parliament. He felt a family obligation to run because a young, politically promising cousin...