Word: whets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whet investors' appetites, the government will probably sell off entirely two of its most attractive holdings: Thomas Cook & Son, which last year earned $2,900,000, and Pickfords, a healthy freight forwarder. Profitable sidelines of the major nationalized firms would come next. Indeed, the government is due to begin talks with British Steel this month. One plan suggested by a few hard-lining Tories is to strip the company of its three most promising divisions-chemicals, special steels and construction engineering-and leave it with three less profitable branches. Pessimists in Harold Wilson's Labor Party are already...