Word: enfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humbler levels, too, British ingenuity still finds a way to defy or bypass the government. A woman who was determined to found the first diaper laundry and supply service in England (The Rockabye Nappy Service at Enfield, Middlesex) could not buy diapers in quantity in England because the mills were then subsidized to make other kinds of cheap piece goods ... So she went shopping in the guise of an expectant mother . . . When clerks asked for her "green card" (a mother's special ration book), she just looked more pregnant. Anyway, despite all the government could...