Word: stockport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when it has been easier to govern than to oppose." Yet the voting swing to the Conservative Party was less than 2%. The Tories' white-haired campaign manager, avuncular old Lord Woolton, acknowledged that "the low poll" was the key to victory. He quoted a taxi driver in Stockport: "I had nothing to grumble about." Lord Woolton's conclusion was realistic: "A large number of people have not voted Conservative but have abstained from voting...
...months ago a customer walked into Horace Mendelsohn's auto-accessories shop in Stockport, near Manchester, England and bought two motorcycle tires, paying seven shillings, sixpence ($1.05) below the list price. Three days later, Cut-rater Mendelsohn learned that his "customer" was a private investigator for the British Motor Trade Association. He got a summons to appear before the association's Price Protection Committee on a charge of price cutting. The committee, a private court staffed with lawyers paid by the association, weighed Mendelsohn's case carefully, penalized him by putting his shop on the "Stop List...