Word: lancashiremen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wasted Years? And then there was Lancashire-a crucial place, Lancashire, with 10% of the seats in Commons and most of them closely held. Behind his Frigidaire exterior, Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler was warmly familiar with the Lancashiremen's chief concern-with textile mills down, they are not sharing in the prosperity that bathes most of Britain. The Laborites were crying that the Tories had wasted their 3½ years in power. "Wasted years!" snorted Butler. "Do they think the years were wasted which produced 1,000,000 houses...
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