Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...animal kingdom the period of gestation is roughly proportionate to the weight of the species...
...once the biggest library in the Empire, is still among the world's top 15 (an estimated 1,500,000 books). The bulging Bodleian long ago overflowed into nearby buildings and vaults; the Copyright Act entitles it to a copy of every new work published within the United Kingdom. Largely paid for by Rockefeller Foundation money, the new annex has space for five million books. Oxford considers it big enough to hold everything worth saving of what will be written in the next two centuries...
Among the Debris. Britain had 551,927 P.W.s still in her charge. Of these some 385,000 are in the United Kingdom, working in the coal mines, harvesting crops, tearing down air-raid shelters and clearing ground for new buildings among the debris left by five years of German bombing. In France, still desperately short of manpower, 700,000 German prisoners are rented out by the Government (at a charge of approximately $1 a day) to private employers. In Belgium, Holland, Scandinavia and the Balkans another 100,000-odd P.W.s are at work...
Shortly afterwards, the United Kingdom, first of the great powers to speak out since the general debate began yesterday, attacked Russia for her "reckless use" of the veto in the Security Council...
...United Kingdom warned that if the "reckless use" of the veto is continued the United Nations Security Council "very soon" will be discredited...