Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the twisting horse-&-buggy roads through London's suburbs, sleek patrician Bentleys elbowed war-weary jalopies aside oh the way to the track. Charabancs full of cheering trippers from Clapham Common and Edgeware overtook lumbering six-horsed coaches complete with liveried postilions and grey-toppered gentry...
Cheers & Boos. The next act in the show was the drive to the Casa Rosada, between blue & white striped Argentine flags springing from Buenos Aires' handsome, grey stone buildings. The packed throngs, who saw Perón as a modern knight in the shining armor of socialistic endeavor, shouted "Perón! Perón!" again and again. The diplomats, too, got cheers -except Yanqui George S. Messersmith, who got boos and whistles. (Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia next day called at the U.S. Embassy to apologize for his countrymen...
What was shocking was the grey market in cars, which had spawned tricks to put U.S. black marketeers to shame. With British car production in low gear and demand in high, many a London dealer was openly selling 1946 models at double the Government ceiling price. The prices were legal because Government ceilings apply only to new cars, and dealers found it easy to convert a new car into a secondhand one. As a Piccadilly salesman explained: "You only have to take a new car out and let the balmy summer breezes play over it a while and there...
...making of financial policy was left in Manhattan. But henceforth all decisions on production will be made by Wilson. He will also lay down the policy for G.M.'s public relations, which were none too well handled during the G.M. strike. Grey, affable Charlie Wilson, who has always gotten along well with the press, was expected to improve them...
...curve in London's Thames Embankment, midway between the Houses of Parliament and the Tower, stands a massive granite pile, boldly convex. Its 16 grey Ionic columns give an impression of opulent security worthy of a king's exchequer. This is Unilever House. In front stands a statue of Queen Victoria, symbol of Empire. The juxtaposition is apt. For Unilever House is an empire within the Empire, the greatest industrial realm in the British world...