Word: nuffield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Nuffield Foundation, hoping to find out, last week gave $360,000 to four universities to look hard into the British mouth. Some suspected that part of the money had best be invested in propaganda against indifference: of the 14,000,000 Britons whose insurance entitles them to dental care, less than 7% apply...
...Britain will play a big part in India's industrialization. Her amiable automobile tycoon, Lord Nuffield, is now planning to make cars in India. The wealthy Birla Brothers would raise the capital of ?3,500,000 (about $14,000,000), Nuffield would supply the technicians and equipment. The new car will be called the Hindustan...
Britain's No. 1 philanthropist, Viscount Nuffield, 65, complained some five years ago that his good works had caused him five times as much trouble as his business. Having given away some $60,000,000 he swore he would give no more. But last week he headed into more trouble: for scientific and medical research, public health, social studies, and "the care and comfort of aged people" he created a $40,000,000 trust fund. Peacetime automaker (Morris, Wolseley), Lord Nuffield is now one of Britain's main armorers, also one of her most unreconstructed individualists. Chief financial...
...Archbishop of York, to Britain's soldiers and sailors. In Westminster Cathedral, Cardinal Kinsley celebrated High Mass. The King's chaplain, the Reverend Pat McCormick, preached to tense crowds at the Coliseum, famed London vaudeville house. To his munitions workers, now on a seven-day week. Lord Nuffield declared that every man should take for his text on Sunday: "Work and pray...
...Lord Nuffield tried to do the same in England. Great Britain's Royal Tank Corps became the Royal Armoured Corps of two divisions, plus two Territorial divisions, totaling in all about 1,000 tanks, mostly light (6 ton), with some Packard-motored 12 tonners. The Allies considered their tanks superior to Germany's in armor and firepower, though slightly slower, less numerous...