Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gusty Dominion daughters gave Mother Britain a wonderful surprise last week. Australia's Labor Parliament approved an outright gift of 25,000,000 Australian pounds ($80,250,000) to the United Kingdom. Next day small sister New Zealand announced a gift of 12,500,000 New Zealand pounds.* Both girls felt they ought to help Mother in her financial pinch; and besides, they owed a lot to her for help...
This week the United Kingdom buckled down to work again. After three fuelless weeks, factories in the London area and the northwest could resume operations, but home use was still curtailed. Snow and ice were thawing, coal moving. Brewers were resuming beer production. Britons felt a little better...
...Tory Members of Parliament were asked what they proposed to do, the best answer was: "Wait until the people get their senses back." A factor of the Tory futility is that, to all effects, the Party is Winston Churchill-and last week he fiddled with tactics while the United Kingdom froze. If, as many Conservatives say, he is convinced that the people will summon him to power again, he has offered them nothing but himself on his own terms...
...Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven...
...named Robert Ralph Young, board chairman of the Alleghany Corp. In the short space of a few years, Bob Young had become the most-talked-about railroadman in the U.S. Consequently, people took stock-quite literally-in what he intended to do. He had already put together a railroad kingdom out of the roads which Alleghany Corp. controlled: the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Nickel Plate, the Pere Marquette and its stock interests (in ten other roads). Now he was after an empire. The New York Central would be its keystone...