Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know that of the 11.5 lbs. per capita annual consumption of beans in Britain, a major part of these are grown in Michigan. Michigan farmers, who produce 99% of the navy beans grown in the U.S., used as baked beans in the U.K., sold 1,091,000 hundred-pound bags of beans to the U.K. in 1966, the last year for which the figures are available. Since the H. J. Heinz Co. has over 50% of the market in the U.K., it is therefore reasonable to assume that Heinz's purchases accounted for more than one-half...
During the cheerless eight months since he had to devalue the pound, words of praise for Harold Wilson have been as scarce as sunshine at his habitual Scilly Isles vacation spot. Merchant Banker Jocelyn Hambro recently called him the worst Prime Minister since Lord North, who presided over the loss of the American colonies. The public, which voted Tory in by-elections all winter and spring, earlier this month gave Wilson the lowest rating that Gallup pollsters have recorded for any Prime Minister since they began sampling in Neville Chamberlain...
...Wilson had some information that made that statement sound merely overoptimistic rather than like sheer nonsense. Britain's trade deficit dropped 42% in June, the best performance in any month since devaluation, and Europe's central bankers showed their confidence in the pound by giving Britain $2 billion in new stand-by credits to defend it. A Daily Mail poll showed that the massive Tory lead of 23.5% in April had been cut to 13.5% this month. Then, last week, Labor scored its second parliamentary by-election victory in five weeks. The win at Caerphilly, Wales, was narrow...
...lung cancer; in Midhurst, England. The emphasis was on fighters in 1940, and Aircraft Czar Lord Beaverbrook turned Dobson down when he asked permission to build a super-bomber; Avro tackled the project on its own, by war's end had produced 7,500 "Lancs" which helped pound Nazi Germany into rubble...
...Roval Canadian Air Force sent a C-130 from Resolute Bay this "morning" with a 3,000-pound payload of huts, newspapers, dog food, and tea for the summer camp. But a ten-knot wind made the airdrop unfeasible, and the plane returned from over the camp without dropping the supplies. A second attempt is cheduled for tomorrow...