Word: victoria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commonwealth over which Elizabeth II presides is bigger, richer and more populous than that fabulous Empire welded together by the strong-willed ministers of her great-great-grandmother. Victoria. Born of a snug union of Britain and Dominions of European stock, it now has hundreds of millions of brown, black and yellow men. It covers one quarter of the earth's land mass, contains one-fourth of the world's people, and carries on within its confines one-third of the world's trade...
...riots quickly spread to the Asian quarter in Victoria Street. There, less than a mile from the $60 million beach front reserved for the whites, 800 women besieged another beer hall, while at Cato Manor the mob of rioters swelled to more than 3,000. When men were seen joining the women, the police decided to open up with their Sten guns. Four Africans fell dead; 24 more were injured badly enough to be taken to the hospital...
...Never since Queen Victoria came to the throne more than a century ago," whooped London's Sunday Express, "has Britain been so buoyant, so prosperous." Britain's export boom broke new records in May, and came within a hairbreadth of bringing the long-coveted balance of trade. Last week the government announced that May exports reached an all-time peak of $866,300,000, leaving a trade gap of only $4,200,000, the lowest recorded since the government began keeping figures in the mid-19th century...
Dead Heat. In Melbourne, Australia, research uncovered the scattered remains of the great race horse Carbine (1890-1914), one hoof at Victoria Racing Club, one hoof in possession of an English duke, the body skeleton at Melbourne's National Museum, the head at the Auckland, N.Z. War Memorial Museum, the hide as upholstery of the president's chair at the Auckland Racing Club...
Early in Queen Victoria's long reign. Sir Benjamin Hall, her Chief Lord of Woods and Forests, promised Britain's Parliament "a king of clocks, the biggest and best in the world, within sight and sound of the heart of London." He kept his promise grandly. London's great Westminster clock was soon overseeing London's pace, keeping accurate time within a tenth of a second a day; one of its few respites from clockwork occurred in World War II when its works were shaken during a German air raid. One morning last week, when...