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...Cherokee Indians were surprised and puzzled a few years ago to learn that an Englishman wanted to buy five tons of clay in the Carolina mountains. But Josiah Wedgwood usually gets what he wants. He offered the Indians £500 for the material and had it shipped back to London...
...Midlands of England, Josiah Wedgwood wanted a canal to connect the Trent and Mersey rivers. So he pushed the necessary legislation through Parliament, contributed £1,000 to the cost of the project, and devoted more than ten years to getting it finished. It will open next year, a 93-mile marvel that extends through 75 locks and will reduce transportation costs from 10 pence a ton-mile to 1½ pence...
When Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered a set of cream-colored Queen's Ware like the one that Josiah Wedgwood had made for Queen Charlotte (cost: £52), he wanted her to have something better. So he had the 952-piece set decorated with 1,244 hand-painted views of English landscapes (cost...
...drawing power of Party Left-Winger Michael Foot, who led the first ballot with 90 votes, to 84 for the Foreign Secretary. Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, a favorite of Labor intellectuals, polled only a disappointing 56 votes on that ballot. Along with two other contenders-Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn, a leftist, and middle-roading Environment Secretary Anthony Crosland-Jenkins dropped...
...chances of Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, another moderate, were damaged by his verbal abuse of the leftists during a recent parliamentary debate. Two others not given much chance to survive: Environment Secretary Anthony Crosland, who is not well known among British voters, and Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn, the extreme left apostate peer who has long been a burr to Labor moderates, notably including Wilson. Indeed, Wilson probably would not have stepped down had he thought a leftist like Benn or even Foot might succeed him and wreck the new counterinflationary economic strategy...