Word: hibbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's ports, which last week reached to Liverpool (see p. 20) and included new batches of German mines laid by air in many harbors, tended to obscure Germany's continued war on British shipping at sea. Reviewing the year, Minister of Shipping Ronald Hibbert Cross last week reported that while she lost 1,900,000 merchant tons, Britain more than replaced it with 2,000,000 tons built, bought, leased and captured. He cited 33,000 vessels escorted in convoys during the year...
...this was futuristic, the Allies' concurrent actions were more in line with getting on with the war. Minister of Economic Warfare Ronald Hibbert Cross made public an Allied plan to buy up in advance all this year's exportable surpluses of crops as well as commodities in the Balkans, so that Germany shall not have them. This plan, talked of before, will take some doing...
Blockade. Up for cross-examining by the House of Commons last week was 44-year-old Ronald Hibbert Cross, Minister of Economic Warfare on how this most important job was being handled. Geoffrey Mander, a Liberal colleague of Lion Lloyd George, wanted to know whether any approach had been made to the U. S. to persuade that great nation against selling to other countries (notably Russia) materials which might be passed on to Germany...
Last week the House of Commons got its first detailed report on the effects of these measures from Minister of Economic Warfare Ronald Hibbert Cross. Tall, fair-haired, direct, pleasant, incisive, 43, a merchant-banker and civil servant of the conservative Eton-Army-business pattern, Ronald Cross is considered one of the most promising of the Government's younger supporters. Politically brash, he nevertheless once thoughtfully sent flowers to an ill and defeated opponent. His present job is to see that the enemy gets no flowers until its funeral...