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...many cigarettes as Britons, and at least some U.S. cities having air pollution as bad as many of Britain's, the lung-cancer death rate is markedly higher in Britain than in the U.S.? One factor is obvious but too often overlooked, said London's Dr. Patrick Lawther: U.S. pollution is mainly industrial, whereas Britain's comes largely from the burning of soft (bituminous) coal in open grates. And the castle that is every Englishman's home discharges the heavy resulting soot into the air near lung level from low chimneys. As for the difference...
Forty Percent? The big guns of the T.U.C., led by burly Chairman Sir William Lawther, wheeled up to support retrenchment. Trade union leaders prepared a report and a resolution which served up some bitter medicine for the rank & file (8,000,000 strong), who have been pressing for higher pay and other benefits. Salient points...
...Will Lawther comes from Durham, and is therefore a Geordie (native of northeast England). As such, he would tend to give his aitches the harsh Teutonic guttural overemphasis of his Nordic ancestors. Never by any misadventure would he drop an aspirate. If he must be rendered phonetically (as you so love to do with cockney taxi drivers, who all seem to say "bloody" every fourth word-and, for the sake of accuracy, I'd like to point out that bloody has been superseded since World War II by a four-letter word as yet unprintable), what he said should...
Your London correspondent has wronged Will Lawther, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, and local pride. You give him either a cockney or a North Midlands accent when you make him say: "Just fancy 'avin' John L. Lewis comin' over here and tellin' us 'ow to do our bloody jobs. I'd say to 'im, 'When you take our two-foot-nine seams and give us your eight-foot seams, we might listen to yer' " [TIME...
Only one Commie candidate was elected to any of the 42 posts on governing bodies and committees. When it was all over, burly Will Lawther, National Union of Mineworkers' anti-Communist president and newly elected head of the T.U.C., sprawled triumphantly over a half pint of beer. "Yer'd have thoert they woor blooody Nazzies," said Will Lawther, "th' way they've been schemin' and skirmishin'-but we've got th' blighters proper licked...