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...forms a single complex, something like the Ruhr. South Lanes, as Britons call it, is the most populous region of Britain outside London. Its people are a nubbly mixture of English yeomen, Welsh shepherds and Irish peasants, congealed into Lancastrians by the Industrial Revolution. With its deepwater port of Liverpool (pop. 790,000), its damp climate and plentiful coal, Lancashire was for a century the cotton clothier of half the world. Lancashire men invented the first machines of mass production (the Crompton mule, the spinning jenny), were the first to use steam to drive them. But the price of industrial...
...last week, Britons faced a new situation. Increasing numbers of Negroes have poured into postwar Britain from Jamaica and the other British West Indies, lured by reports of full employment and encouraged by cut-rate fares promoted by travel agents. Clotting in tight, unhappy knots in Birmingham, Cardiff, Liverpool, Ipswich and London, they swelled Britain's Negro population to more than 50,000, and with embarrassment and dismay, Britons discovered in themselves emotions and prejudices they had never acknowledged...
Gladstone was the son of a rich Liverpool merchant. To an erratic, explosive brain, he joined (said his doctor) a body "built in the most beautiful proportion . . . head, legs, arms and trunk, all without a flaw, like some ancient Greek statue." Gladstone's first intention was to become a parson: he never quite forgave himself for being so weak as to become a Prime Minister. Religion was not his faith; it was his spouse, and he loved it so passionately that when he felt exhausted he would say quite naturally "not that he wanted...
...steady drizzle that turned to fog, about 40,000 Liverpool suburbanites voted last week in the West Derby by-election. "A significant straw," the politicos called it, for West Derby symbolizes Britain's even political balance: able Sir David Maxwell Fyfe held onto the seat for the Conservatives so narrowly in the 1951 general election that the Socialists needed only a 1.7% swing to win this year...
Bowater built a newsprint mill on the Thames near London, and another near Liverpool, to supply several mass-circulation London dailies. He acquired timberlands and mills in Scandinavia, and as war approached turned to Newfoundland, where he bought International Paper's big plant at Corner Brook, and 7,000,000 acres of timber. At war's end, Sir Eric started diversifying into paper bags, paperboard and other products, which now account for almost 20% of his production. The $250 million Bowater empire now employs 16,000 in some 40 companies spread through eight nations of the free world...