Word: groundnut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skillfully blended sex, crime and sports features with campaigns against appeasement of Hitler and British unemployment. During World War II, Picture Post's picture coverage was Britain's best, and after the war it was responsible for such exposes as the government's blundering in the "groundnut scheme" in Africa (TiME...
Tory members roared an answer: "On promises and groundnuts." (This was a cruel reference to the government's ?36 million scheme for growing peanuts in Africa; failure of the groundnut scheme was announced...