Word: plowden
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...first squall caused by the Labor pamphlet had quieted down, it became evident that the British government was still far from a flat stand against one of the world's best hopes. British officials last week cagily lifted a few inches of heavy wrapping from something called the Plowden Plan. Drafted by Treasury's Chairman of the Economic Planning Board Sir Edwin Plowden, it offered as its main feature a coal-steel pool without the sweeping powers which Schuman had called for. It held out some strictly limited hope that a practical compromise between the British...