STEEL FIRM JOB
Wilson Given Chance
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LONDON, November 27.
A steel company chief yesterday offered Britain’s Prime Minister, Mr Harold Wilson, a job in charge of a steel factory, the “Daily Mail” said.
Mr Norman Clifford Brown dressed in overalls, drove up to number 10 Downing street at 7 a.m.
He rang the bell and handed in a letter offering Mr Wilson one of his factories to prove to him that the Labour Government could never' make steel nationalisation pay.l Mr Brown, aged 57, who lives in a £25.000 house at i Hambleton, Lancashire, said in; the letter: “I firmly believe) that a man should have ex-1 perience of running an estate’ a business before going oni or to run the Government of a country.”
Diamond Brings £8400. A pear-shaped diamond changed hands for £B4OO at Sotheby’s, the London auctioneers, today. The diamond, unmounted and weighing 6.72 carates, was offered anonymously.—London, Nov. 26.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30610, 28 November 1964, Page 17
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