Word: kippered
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...many a British businessman, expansion holds about as much allure as an undercooked kipper. But red-mustached, 66-year-old Frank Perkins thrives on it. In the depths of the Depression, when most British businessmen dreaded any venture beyond the lawns of their country estates, Perkins boldly marched out to sell the British trucking industry on the diesel engine. He made his sale, expanded and became England's biggest producer of automotive diesels...
...Clipped Kippers. British Kipper Exporters, Ltd. put on sale in the U.S. the world's first fresh-frozen boneless kippers (smoked herring fillets). Called Edinburgers, they are precooked and formed into slabs. Price...
...baseball umpires, corset salesmen, jet pilots and bagel bakers dominate the screen. British panelists are more likely to be guessing at such occupations as winkle-washer, teapot-handler, kipper-packer, gentleman's gentleman, or sagger-maker's bottom knocker (a pottery worker). A strictly British question which suddenly narrows down the field: Are you nationalized...
...festive breakfast for 80 in London's Claridge's Hotel last week, Sir Frederick Bell, chairman of Britain's Herring Industry Board, rose to speak. "With all the fine food they have in America," said Sir Frederick, "the one thing they lack is a fine Scottish kipper." The guests agreed. They had just eaten 160 fine Scottish kippers to celebrate the shipping of 4,000,000 cellophane-wrapped, frozen kippers to New York, in the first big postwar invasion of the bacon & eggs (and dollar) market by the trade...
Wartime rookies in the Coldstream Guards are crushed into shape by kipper-complexioned, one-eyed Sergeant Bill Nelson, whose arms are "gnarled as old salami," whose fists protrude "like mallets of black stinkwood," and who sounds off to new recruits like one of Mark Twain's brawny scrappers in Life on the Mississippi...