Britain had invested heavily in traditional industries while rivals inevitably made the most of new techniques and inventions. Germany's chemical industry pulled so far ahead, for example, that in 1914 the British Army discovered that all the khaki dye for its uniforms came from Stuttgart.
-- Piers Brendon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire: 1781-1997.
... Alas, mauve was not substituted.
November 25, 2008
Decline and outsourcing
