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Cordtex. British trade name for detonating fuse. 

Cruisers were considered by the Naval Staff to be the major threat to British trade, and also the means by which a guerre de course could be conducted against Japan. The Germans sprang a surprise in the early 1930s when they began to replace their pre-dreadnoughts with so-called pocket battleships. These armoured ships were nominally within the... 

January 1934 by Hankey and Fisher about the pocket battleships, Chatfield replied that the French (who had laid down the first of two battle-cruisers in 1932) could look after them. He added that Britain s three battle-cruisers could do so too, but ultimately the Royal Navy might not possess any ships of that type as the design of their replacements would depend upon what the Japanese replaced their battlecruisers with. No attempt was made to build larger cruisers to cope with the pocket battleships. Indeed, the Admiralty proposed at the second London naval conference to reduce the maximum size of cruisers, from the 10,000 tons allowed under the Washington treaty to 8,000 tons, to make it possible to build at less cost the number believed to be required to protect British trade. ... 

When the Chinese Emperor, confronted by a galloping drug addiction crisis, tried to crack down on the British trading companies and their dope smugglers, the British Crown went to war. 

Keswick, of the hereditary drug-trading family that founded and still controls Jardine Matheson, also represented the RIIA and its sub-branch, the Institute for Pacific Relations, to the United States. (6) Sir John Henry is still Britain s number one man for China policy, Chairman of Britain s China Association, Vice-President of the Sino-British Trade Council, and a member of the Great Britain-China Committee. (His predecessor at the China Association from 1951-55 was John Kidston Swire, of the old opium-trading Swire family, who still sits on the London Committee of the HongShang.)... 

Many individuals who wish to coin and search their own trade-marks use the following method. Recourse can be first made to a book such as Trade Marks (67) which gives an extensive list of chemical trade-marks, their compositions, uses, and suppliers, the entire U. S. and British trade-mark laws, methods of coining new trade-marks, and trade-marks classified by industries. Another excellent guide to the selection of new trade-marks is Trade Mark Management, published by the U.S. Trade-Mark Association, New York, N. Y. 

VX was discovered by British scientists in 1952. The British traded the discovery with the U.S. Army in 1953 for information on thermonuclear weapons and a systematic investigation of these new compounds was begun at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center. In 1955, the compounds were designated V-Class (Venomous). 

Marengo, F. D. (1979), The Code of British Trade Union Behaviour (Farnborough Saxon House). 

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