Word: huddersfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ways of improving morale and productivity of his workers and developing his executives from their ranks. When a 25-acre estate and mansion near one plant became vacant in 1944, Brown transformed it into a dining room and social center for his workers. He turned his former home at Huddersfield into a guest house for his executives...
This week, led by the 60,000 members of the National Federation of Housewives, British women were boycotting their greengrocers, wearing bows of white tape to show that they wanted prices down. In Huddersfield the local N.F.H. chairman, Mrs. Neil Sykes, advised housewives to make their salads of nettle tops, primrose and cowslip leaves, dandelions and wood sorrel. And in a speech at Reading, Food Minister Maurice Webb made political capital of the boycott...