Word: watkinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of a routine question-and-answer period in the House of Commons one day last, week, Transport Minister Harold Watkinson made a humiliating announcement: to keep the British Overseas Airways Corp. competitive with U.S. and other foreign airlines, Her Majesty's government had agreed to let the state-owned airline order 15 U.S.-made Boeing 707 jet airliners for $98 million...
There are few such signs. Minister Watkinson said that BOAC is "urgently discussing" a long-range jetliner with Britain's own de Havilland. But so far de Havilland's plane is only a blueprint; between planning and production there is many a slip, as the British are painfully aware. (Watkinson also tried to soothe British egos by stating that BOAC's U.S. jets will use homemade Rolls-Royce engines installed in the Boeing air frames, thus save $25 million in dollars...
...What if our republic were now shattered?" wrote the Rev. M. R. Watkinson to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Portland Chase on Nov. 13, 1861. "Would not antiquaries of succeeding centuries reason from our past that we were heathen nation?" Secretary Chase's response was the motto, "In God We Trust," which first appeared on the bronz two-cent pieces...