Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians sounded grumpy, as if they just could not enjoy political surprises. But most others found it a rather relaxing interlude in a tough year-even the Scots, who also take politics seriously. Said one dour Scotsman who found himself in London last week: "I thought something silly like this might happen. I hope it won't go to the puir wee mon's head...
...Londoner, obsessed by the high cost of living in Britain, wrote to the Times about the excesses of this year's Guy Fawkes Day, on which London urchins traditionally beg "a penny for the Guy, sir?" "I do not complain at the poorness of the floor show that they were putting on," he wrote solemnly, "but I recoiled to hear them cry, 'Tuppence for the Guy, sir?' ... I feel constrained to inquire whether the country can today afford a surcharge of 100 percent for such a matter...
...main effort was to be the construction of a bridge of insight between his time and traditional Western culture. He spanned a small part of that gap when he went to live in London, became a British subject. Before the building began, however, and probably before Eliot had any notion of where he was going, he had to tap, test and question the world around...
...London dockers, employed by Butler's Wharf Ltd., who went on a brief strike last week when the "guv'nor" put to work a British-made forklift truck (a mobile, automatic stacking machine) to help the men unload grapes, lemons and Dutch cheese. Observing that the machine enabled one man to do the work of three, the guv'nor laid off 14 men from a team of 21. The strike followed; the dockers returned only when the machine was withdrawn, pending negotiations...
...Chemicals and head of the Federation of British Industries; the U.S. contingent by Board Chairman Philip Reed of General Electric. The council met for the first time late in October, then set off on a whirlwind tour of factories-electrical and mechanical engineering, clothing, tire and radio plants near London, machine tool and auto plants in Birmingham, textile factories in Bradford, pottery works in Stoke, the busy Clydeside shipyards in Glasgow...