Word: lancasterism
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¶ In Lancaster, Pa., broad-shouldered cops shouldered strikers out of the way when the Conestoga Transportation Co. tried to put trolleys back on the streets in an attempt to end a three-week-old walkout.
This week, in a long cream and gilt room of London's century-old, bombscarred Lancaster House, just west of St. James's Palace, the foreign ministers of the world's five great powers meet to begin writing the peace terms of World War II.
*The Lincoln, Britain's superfortress, is an enlarged and stepped-up version of the Lancaster.
When Mikolajczyk and Stanczyk arrived in a British Lancaster, they were greeted by Ambassadors Harriman and Clark Kerr, and a lone representative of the Foreign Commissariat. Said Harriman in a murmured aside to Clark Kerr: "Then you'll follow?" Arm-in-arm with Mikolajczyk and Stanczyk, Harriman entered his...
In their arctic flying suits, the British-Canadian crew of the converted Lancaster bomber looked like men from Mars. Every available inch of their 37-ton, four-engine plane, the Aries,* was filled with scientific equipment, much of it secret. When they left Whitehorse in the Yukon one day last...