Word: gambian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialists, however, stood by the great Gambian egg scheme...
Last week Colonial Secretary James Griffiths told the House of Commons that the plan had failed and would be abandoned. Reason: the government planners had regrettably failed to find out whether Gambian land would grow chicken feed. The fact: it would...
...Tories were in full cry, nipping the government's heels, baying for blood. On defense, on the appointment of an American as NATO's sea commander, on the allocation of tinplate, on Gambian chickens, the Tories swept to the attack. "Resign!" they yelled in the House of Commons when, for the second time in two weeks, the government was defeated on a minor issue: a Tory motion blaming the government for inadequate stockpiling of raw materials. The Socialists sat silent and embarrassed...