Word: midlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Midland, Texas...
Gaitskell is equally adept at using this "light touch" in both banter with miners in a midland pub and in debate on the floor of Commons, where his parliamentary wit has been sharpened through long tenure in the front benches. In his first bud-get message as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1951, for example, he presented complex economic data underlying a major Socialist policy change with such vigor and clarity that the House discarded its normal reserve for such matters and rose to applaud as a unit. As a high minister in the Socialist government and as questionner...
...Vastly surprised to find himself leading Wimbledon Champion Lew Hoad in the semi-finals of England's Midland Counties tennis championship, a 19-year-old Briton named Michael Davies was moved to try an ingenious bit of gamesmanship; he walked around the net to say that he was defaulting. Prevailed upon to change his mind, Davies went back to whip the startled Aussie, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. After that Davies had nothing left. In the finals he lost to South Africa's Trevor Fancutt...
Married. Ruth Chandler Roosevelt, 21, granddaughter of F.D.R., daughter of Elliott, now a Colorado rancher; and Henry D. Lindsley III, 27, Midland, Texas oilman; in Fort Worth...
Management's imprint on community affairs is still apparent in some old established company towns. In Dow Chemical's Midland there are no hard liquor bars because "the Dow family wouldn't like it." In some company towns, particularly in the South, management frankly uses paternalism as a weapon against unionism...