Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnny Walker Mark II, Formula IV, is not a new liquor. It's a car -- one of many on display at the New England international Automobile Show at the War Memorial Auditorium. About ten feet long and only two feet high and wide, bright red, tapering to a broad, flat snout, Johnny resembles a tongue kissing. As such, he is one of least sensual pieces in the show...
...running a tanker fleet. He builds some of his own ships and orders others from competing yards, specializing in the immensely economical leviathans that are three times as capacious as mere supertankers. Last month his 149,000-ton Bergehaven unloaded 1,000,000 bbl of oil at Milford Haven, England- the biggest single delivery ever made in Europe. A sister ship will be finished in Japan this week, bringing his fleet to 1 ships totaling 1,300,000 tons. By mid-1968, when nine other ships will have been launched, Bergesen's fleet will have doubled in size, surpassing...
Peasants & Princes. At the historical level, Social Origins is no more than a consideration of the various routes by which some of the world's countries-England, France, the U.S., China, India and Japan-have climbed from farm to industrial cultures in the past three centuries. The transition, Moore says, was unavoidable. As the peasant farmer began to produce more than he and his family could eat, a lively host of predators-kings, princes, landlords, a new commercial class-contended for the surplus...
...competition took many forms, all capitalistic, and gave birth to many different forms of government. In 18th century England and France, budding capitalists strove with a waning monarchical power to establish democracy, or a working balance between the perquisites of government and the perquisites of merchant princes. In Germany and Japan, where the peasantry was too weak or disunited to resist, the same power struggle generated fascism-a conservative revolution imposed from the top. In China and Russia, political schemers carefully marshaled peasant discontent, smoldering over centuries, and used it to overthrow the old order -creating Communism...
Where change comes quickly, as in bloody revolutions, the cost seems higher only because it is quickly met. The U.S. Civil War, which Moore terms a revolutionary victory of democracy (the North) over fascism (the South), took more than 700,000 lives but lasted only five years. England's serfs, who were the victims of that country's progress, virtually vanished in a century...