Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Firm A" offered to supply mountings for Bofors anti-aircraft guns (a Nuffield specialty made under leased Swedish patents) for ?220 each ($880), according to Mr. Stokes, while the bid of "Firm B" on the same mountings...
Instead of getting the order, "Firm B" was told by a Government official, "you are 50% too cheap!", the specifications were slightly altered, and "Firm B" then bid ?148 ($592), but the order finally went to "Firm A" at ?180 ($720). To newshawks Gadfly Stokes swore that he was in the room when "Firm B" received the alleged telephone call, hinted that he believed "Firm A" is a Nuffield subsidiary. In the House of Commons he shouted: "I'd like to wring the necks of the armaments firms in the ring...
...hinting as directly as he dared at a major chain of collusion to up prices and profits, but he was faced down last week by Minister of Supply Dr. Leslie Burgin who appeared to be familiar with the transaction mentioned. It was simply not true, said Dr. Burgin, that "Firm B" was intimidated into raising its bid. In the course of his mild remarks, the Minister of Supply revealed that Britain had spent on armaments over ?110,000,000 ($440,000,000) since the war broke, or $7,274 per minute...
...been Minister to Yugoslavia. It is unusual for a British Ambassador to France (with Paris and Washington at the top of the British Ambassadorial ladder) not to have served in more than one Legation and at least one other Embassy previously, but Sir Ronald is brilliant, literary, shrewd, tactful, firm, sardonic, and so intent on the matter before him that even his golf has something of the nature of a political démarche...
...forthrightly marked off the Church's stand when he said: "So many noble minds separated from us ... are recognizing in the Catholic Church principles of belief and life that have stood the test of two thousand years . . . [the Church] is generous in its material condescension toward all, but firm when, even at the costs of torments of martyrdom, it has to say: 'Non licet! It is not allowed...